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BEAN

Surname statistics for Bean

There are approximately 7,529 people named Bean in the UK. That makes it the 1,434th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 119 are named Bean.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)75291434N/A119
United Kingdom (1881 census)387611770.013129
Change since 1881+3653-257-0.001-10
Other Countries
United States37145846N/A138
Australia10201626N/A62

Politics

People with the surname Bean are slightly less 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 Bean are:

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Christopher Bean
David Bean
Richard Bean
Paul Bean
John Bean
Robert Bean
Nigel Bean
Andrew Bean
Stephen Bean
Mark Bean
Michael Bean
Martin Bean
Peter Bean
Jonathan Bean
Graham Bean
Brian Bean
Anthony Bean
Philip Bean
Ian Bean
Simon Bean

Top female forenames

Susan Bean
Sarah Bean
Elizabeth Bean
Jacqueline Bean
Patricia Bean
Julie Bean
Angela Bean
Jennifer Bean
Christine Bean
Mary Bean
Nicola Bean
Pamela Bean
Louise Bean
Stacy Bean
Caroline Bean
Emma Bean
Anita Bean
Deborah Bean
Josephine Bean
Michelle Bean

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.