Surname statistics for Richardson

There are approximately 100,730 people named Richardson in the UK. That makes it the 70th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,594 are named Richardson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10073070N/A1594
United Kingdom (1881 census)50980540.171702
Change since 1881+49750-16-0.011-108
Other Countries
United States24953374N/A925
Australia1384976N/A847

Politics

People with the surname Richardson 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 Richardson are:

  1. Conservative (11)
  2. Labour (6)
  3. Independent (3)
  4. Liberal Democrat (1)
  5. Alderman (1)
  6. Liberal (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Richardson
David Richardson
Paul Richardson
Mark Richardson
Peter Richardson
Andrew Richardson
Michael Richardson
Ian Richardson
James Richardson
Stephen Richardson
Alan Richardson
Simon Richardson
Christopher Richardson
Anthony Richardson
Robert Richardson
Brian Richardson
Neil Richardson
William Richardson
Steven Richardson
Philip Richardson

Top female forenames

Susan Richardson
Elizabeth Richardson
Karen Richardson
Julie Richardson
Helen Richardson
Margaret Richardson
Sarah Richardson
Christine Richardson
Patricia Richardson
Claire Richardson
Nicola Richardson
Janet Richardson
Linda Richardson
Mary Richardson
Anne Richardson
Deborah Richardson
Jane Richardson
Carol Richardson
Joanne Richardson
Jennifer Richardson

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.