Surname statistics for Beard

There are approximately 14,921 people named Beard in the UK. That makes it the 679th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 236 are named Beard.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14921679N/A236
United Kingdom (1881 census)78835310.026263
Change since 1881+7038-148-0.002-27
Other Countries
United States47128660N/A175
Australia2477646N/A152

Top male forenames

Paul Beard
John Beard
Andrew Beard
David Beard
Michael Beard
Mark Beard
Peter Beard
Stephen Beard
Christopher Beard
Richard Beard
Robert Beard
James Beard
Martin Beard
Alan Beard
Keith Beard
Kevin Beard
Brian Beard
Philip Beard
Roger Beard
Ian Beard

Top female forenames

Susan Beard
Karen Beard
Patricia Beard
Lesley Beard
Jacqueline Beard
Julie Beard
Helen Beard
Christine Beard
Carol Beard
Gillian Beard
Louise Beard
Sarah Beard
Wendy Beard
Jennifer Beard
Anne Beard
Ann Beard
Amanda Beard
Alison Beard
Sally Beard
Barbara Beard

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.