Surname statistics for Abel

There are approximately 5,290 people named Abel in the UK. That makes it the 1,992nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 84 are named Abel.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)52901992N/A84
United Kingdom (1881 census)192922700.00664
Change since 1881+3361+278+0.002+20
Other Countries
United States182431809N/A68
Australia9171791N/A56

Top male forenames

Richard Abel
Paul Abel
Michael Abel
John Abel
Robert Abel
Christopher Abel
Andrew Abel
David Abel
Mark Abel
Ian Abel
Gary Abel
Stephen Abel
Simon Abel
Antony Abel
Peter Abel
Brian Abel
Jonathan Abel
Graham Abel
Colin Abel
James Abel

Top female forenames

Margaret Abel
Janet Abel
Joanne Abel
Catherine Abel
Laura Abel
Anne Abel
Sheila Abel
Susan Abel
Deborah Abel
Lynda Abel
Debra Abel
Carol Abel
Jennifer Abel
Sarah Abel
Katherine Abel
Lisa Abel
Wendy Abel
Alison Abel
Cheryl Abel
Sharon Abel

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.