Surname statistics for Black

There are approximately 47,448 people named Black in the UK. That makes it the 169th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 751 are named Black.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)47448169N/A751
United Kingdom (1881 census)193921940.065648
Change since 1881+28056+25+0.01+103
Other Countries
United States150186160N/A557
Australia8261143N/A505

Politics

People with the surname Black are 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 Labour.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Black are:

  1. Labour (4)
  2. Liberal Democrat (3)
  3. Conservative (2)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. SNP (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Black
John Black
James Black
Andrew Black
Robert Black
Ian Black
Michael Black
William Black
Stephen Black
Peter Black
Alan Black
Paul Black
Colin Black
Christopher Black
Richard Black
Steven Black
Martin Black
Stuart Black
Anthony Black
Alexander Black

Top female forenames

Susan Black
Elizabeth Black
Margaret Black
Mary Black
Patricia Black
Carol Black
Sarah Black
Joanne Black
Jane Black
Anne Black
Nicola Black
Linda Black
Jacqueline Black
Sharon Black
Fiona Black
Catherine Black
Karen Black
Helen Black
Emma Black
Gillian Black

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.