Surname statistics for Cross

There are approximately 41,590 people named Cross in the UK. That makes it the 206th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 658 are named Cross.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)41590206N/A658
United Kingdom (1881 census)206091780.069688
Change since 1881+20981-28-0.003-30
Other Countries
United States75134382N/A278
Australia6370209N/A390

Politics

People with the surname Cross 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 Cross are:

  1. Conservative (6)
  2. Labour (5)
  3. Liberal Democrat (3)
  4. UKIP (3)
  5. Plaid Cymru (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Cross
John Cross
Andrew Cross
Stephen Cross
Peter Cross
Richard Cross
Michael Cross
Robert Cross
Paul Cross
James Cross
Ian Cross
Anthony Cross
Alan Cross
Steven Cross
Simon Cross
Philip Cross
Nicholas Cross
Mark Cross
Jonathan Cross
Gary Cross

Top female forenames

Susan Cross
Janet Cross
Margaret Cross
Helen Cross
Christine Cross
Karen Cross
Linda Cross
Julie Cross
Joanne Cross
Alison Cross
Elizabeth Cross
Jacqueline Cross
Carol Cross
Jane Cross
Nicola Cross
Angela Cross
Patricia Cross
Deborah Cross
Gillian Cross
Ann Cross

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.