Surname statistics for Tobin

There are approximately 7,278 people named Tobin in the UK. That makes it the 1,478th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 115 are named Tobin.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)72781478N/A115
United Kingdom (1881 census)120033800.00440
Change since 1881+6078+1902+0.008+75
Other Countries
United States181351816N/A67
Australia1867876N/A114

Top male forenames

John Tobin
Paul Tobin
Michael Tobin
James Tobin
David Tobin
Richard Tobin
Robert Tobin
Mark Tobin
Anthony Tobin
Peter Tobin
Andrew Tobin
Kevin Tobin
Patrick Tobin
Alan Tobin
Christopher Tobin
Charles Tobin
Stephen Tobin
William Tobin
Philip Tobin
Timothy Tobin

Top female forenames

Mary Tobin
Susan Tobin
Patricia Tobin
Laura Tobin
Margaret Tobin
Tracey Tobin
Karen Tobin
Catherine Tobin
Frances Tobin
Jane Tobin
Christine Tobin
Natasha Tobin
Ann Tobin
Nicola Tobin
Jennifer Tobin
Lorraine Tobin
Jacqueline Tobin
Lynn Tobin
Helen Tobin
Penelope Tobin

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.