Surname statistics for Dennis

There are approximately 22,045 people named Dennis in the UK. That makes it the 453rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 349 are named Dennis.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)22045453N/A349
United Kingdom (1881 census)88594750.03296
Change since 1881+13186+22+0.005+53
Other Countries
United States74784384N/A277
Australia4170356N/A255

Politics

People with the surname Dennis are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Dennis are:

  1. Conservative (5)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
  3. Thames Ditton/Weston Green Resident's Association (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Paul Dennis
John Dennis
Michael Dennis
Peter Dennis
Richard Dennis
David Dennis
Andrew Dennis
Stephen Dennis
Mark Dennis
Robert Dennis
Simon Dennis
James Dennis
Christopher Dennis
Jonathan Dennis
Ian Dennis
Philip Dennis
Keith Dennis
Brian Dennis
Colin Dennis
Alan Dennis

Top female forenames

Julie Dennis
Susan Dennis
Jennifer Dennis
Margaret Dennis
Sarah Dennis
Helen Dennis
Joanne Dennis
Karen Dennis
Patricia Dennis
Lisa Dennis
Sharon Dennis
Amanda Dennis
Christine Dennis
Linda Dennis
Catherine Dennis
Sandra Dennis
Elizabeth Dennis
Mary Dennis
Pamela Dennis
Joanna Dennis

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.