Surname statistics for Shipton

There are approximately 2,507 people named Shipton in the UK. That makes it the 3,773rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 40 are named Shipton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)25073773N/A40
United Kingdom (1881 census)123932970.00441
Change since 1881+1268-4760-1
Other Countries
United States92325199less than 0.0013
Australia3464566N/A21

Top male forenames

Keith Shipton
John Shipton
David Shipton
Matthew Shipton
Paul Shipton
Peter Shipton
Mark Shipton
Kevin Shipton
Michael Shipton
James Shipton
Stephen Shipton
William Shipton
Oliver Shipton
Robert Shipton
Ian Shipton
Daniel Shipton

Top female forenames

Anne Shipton
Jennifer Shipton
Karen Shipton
Jacqueline Shipton
Victoria Shipton
Suzette Shipton
Sara Shipton
Patricia Shipton
Lynda Shipton
Catherine Shipton
Belinda Shipton
Jane Shipton
Helen Shipton
Hannah Shipton
Elizabeth Shipton
Wendy Shipton

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.