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BEER

Surname statistics for Beer

There are approximately 8,446 people named Beer in the UK. That makes it the 1,268th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 134 are named Beer.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)84461268N/A134
United Kingdom (1881 census)47939260.016160
Change since 1881+3653-342-0.003-26
Other Countries
United States57435554N/A21
Australia1674972N/A102

Politics

People with the surname Beer 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 Beer are:

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

Top male forenames

David Beer
Simon Beer
Michael Beer
John Beer
Andrew Beer
Richard Beer
Christopher Beer
Stephen Beer
James Beer
Paul Beer
Martin Beer
Robert Beer
Daniel Beer
Peter Beer
Alan Beer
Nicholas Beer
William Beer
Mark Beer
Anthony Beer
Ian Beer

Top female forenames

Susan Beer
Elizabeth Beer
Emma Beer
Deborah Beer
Linda Beer
Nicola Beer
Rachel Beer
Julie Beer
Margaret Beer
Jacqueline Beer
Victoria Beer
Amanda Beer
Lynda Beer
Joanne Beer
Fiona Beer
Janet Beer
Jade Beer
Ann Beer
Pauline Beer
Andrea Beer

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.