Surname statistics for Tomlinson

There are approximately 26,783 people named Tomlinson in the UK. That makes it the 359th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 424 are named Tomlinson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)26783359N/A424
United Kingdom (1881 census)138112950.046461
Change since 1881+12972-64-0.004-37
Other Countries
United States241101345N/A89
Australia1885870N/A115

Politics

People with the surname Tomlinson are more 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 Tomlinson are:

  1. Conservative (8)
  2. Labour (6)
  3. Liberal Democrat (2)
  4. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Tomlinson
Paul Tomlinson
John Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson
Andrew Tomlinson
Michael Tomlinson
Ian Tomlinson
Peter Tomlinson
Stephen Tomlinson
Robert Tomlinson
Neil Tomlinson
Christopher Tomlinson
James Tomlinson
Richard Tomlinson
Alan Tomlinson
William Tomlinson
Simon Tomlinson
Matthew Tomlinson
Keith Tomlinson
Gary Tomlinson

Top female forenames

Susan Tomlinson
Margaret Tomlinson
Elizabeth Tomlinson
Helen Tomlinson
Nicola Tomlinson
Gillian Tomlinson
Ann Tomlinson
Julie Tomlinson
Karen Tomlinson
Christine Tomlinson
Claire Tomlinson
Patricia Tomlinson
Linda Tomlinson
Barbara Tomlinson
Janet Tomlinson
Judith Tomlinson
Pauline Tomlinson
Joanne Tomlinson
Sarah Tomlinson
Anne Tomlinson

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.