Surname statistics for Dixon

There are approximately 68,195 people named Dixon in the UK. That makes it the 110th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,079 are named Dixon.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)68195110N/A1079
United Kingdom (1881 census)32810970.111096
Change since 1881+35385-13-0.002-17
Other Countries
United States152015156N/A564
Australia8384139N/A513

Politics

People with the surname Dixon are slightly 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 Dixon are:

  1. Labour (9)
  2. Conservative (3)
  3. Liberal Democrat (3)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. SNP (1)
  6. Ingleby Barwick Independent Society (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Dixon
David Dixon
Paul Dixon
Andrew Dixon
Michael Dixon
Peter Dixon
Robert Dixon
Mark Dixon
Richard Dixon
Stephen Dixon
James Dixon
Ian Dixon
Christopher Dixon
Anthony Dixon
Alan Dixon
Jonathan Dixon
Gary Dixon
Steven Dixon
Simon Dixon
William Dixon

Top female forenames

Susan Dixon
Sarah Dixon
Julie Dixon
Christine Dixon
Janet Dixon
Linda Dixon
Patricia Dixon
Helen Dixon
Elizabeth Dixon
Margaret Dixon
Gillian Dixon
Jane Dixon
Jacqueline Dixon
Joanne Dixon
Karen Dixon
Anne Dixon
Catherine Dixon
Jennifer Dixon
Lisa Dixon
Angela Dixon

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.