Surname statistics for Baron

There are approximately 6,020 people named Baron in the UK. That makes it the 1,733rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 95 are named Baron.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)60201733N/A95
United Kingdom (1881 census)310014560.01104
Change since 1881+2920-2770-9
Other Countries
United States154642152N/A57
Australia5123145N/A31

Politics

People with the surname Baron are slightly 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 Baron are:

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

Top male forenames

John Baron
Christopher Baron
Paul Baron
David Baron
Peter Baron
Robert Baron
Michael Baron
Mark Baron
Anthony Baron
Richard Baron
Stephen Baron
Philip Baron
William Baron
Steven Baron
James Baron
Andrew Baron
Roger Baron
Lee Baron
Geoffrey Baron
Matthew Baron

Top female forenames

Susan Baron
Jacqueline Baron
Karen Baron
Elaine Baron
Natalie Baron
Jennifer Baron
Margaret Baron
Catherine Baron
Helen Baron
Carol Baron
Janet Baron
Heather Baron
Sharon Baron
Anne Baron
Andrea Baron
Kathryn Baron
Suzanne Baron
Christine Baron
Alison Baron
Nicola Baron

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.