Surname statistics for Sim

There are approximately 6,288 people named Sim in the UK. That makes it the 1,673rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 100 are named Sim.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)62881673N/A100
United Kingdom (1881 census)336413520.011112
Change since 1881+2924-321-0.001-12
Other Countries
United States49156376N/A18
Australia12421329N/A76

Top male forenames

David Sim
John Sim
Robert Sim
Andrew Sim
James Sim
Iain Sim
Ian Sim
Colin Sim
Alan Sim
Michael Sim
Paul Sim
William Sim
Martin Sim
Alistair Sim
Alexander Sim
Peter Sim
Stuart Sim
Gordon Sim
Richard Sim
George Sim

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Sim
Susan Sim
Jacqueline Sim
Sharon Sim
Catherine Sim
Margaret Sim
Julie Sim
Heather Sim
Frances Sim
Fiona Sim
Eileen Sim
Karen Sim
LInda Sim
Claire Sim
Barbara Sim
Helen Sim
Louise Sim
Mary Sim
Maureen Sim
Sandra Sim

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.