Surname statistics for Perrin

There are approximately 7,464 people named Perrin in the UK. That makes it the 1,451th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 118 are named Perrin.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)74641451N/A118
United Kingdom (1881 census)306514680.01102
Change since 1881+4399+17+0.002+16
Other Countries
United States112222948N/A42
Australia12101369N/A74

Politics

People with the surname Perrin are slightly less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Perrin are:

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Barnsley Independent Group (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Perrin
Andrew Perrin
John Perrin
Robert Perrin
Anthony Perrin
Mark Perrin
Jonathan Perrin
Steven Perrin
Nicholas Perrin
Graham Perrin
Christopher Perrin
Michael Perrin
Ian Perrin
William Perrin
Richard Perrin
Stephen Perrin
Kenneth Perrin
Roger Perrin
Peter Perrin
Alan Perrin

Top female forenames

Julie Perrin
Susan Perrin
Margaret Perrin
Lisa Perrin
Linda Perrin
Karen Perrin
Lesley Perrin
Christine Perrin
Sarah Perrin
Julia Perrin
Caroline Perrin
Barbara Perrin
Victoria Perrin
Anne Perrin
Valerie Perrin
Angela Perrin
Nicola Perrin
Pamela Perrin
Patricia Perrin
Emma Perrin

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.