Surname statistics for Pitman

There are approximately 5,314 people named Pitman in the UK. That makes it the 1,984th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 84 are named Pitman.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)53141984N/A84
United Kingdom (1881 census)273316370.00991
Change since 1881+2581-347-0.001-7
Other Countries
United States74624395N/A28
Australia12611316N/A77

Top male forenames

Mark Pitman
Andrew Pitman
Robert Pitman
Richard Pitman
Michael Pitman
James Pitman
John Pitman
Stephen Pitman
David Pitman
Philip Pitman
Christopher Pitman
Gary Pitman
Justin Pitman
Graham Pitman
Adrian Pitman
Paul Pitman
Steven Pitman
Russell Pitman
Gareth Pitman
Neil Pitman

Top female forenames

Shirley Pitman
Margaret Pitman
Marion Pitman
Sharon Pitman
Jennifer Pitman
Ruth Pitman
Linda Pitman
Susan Pitman
Tina Pitman
Valerie Pitman
Gillian Pitman
Amanda Pitman
Mary Pitman
Maureen Pitman
Paula Pitman
Pauline Pitman
Sarah Pitman
Sheila Pitman
Lesley Pitman
Katie Pitman

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.