Surname statistics for German

There are approximately 2,199 people named German in the UK. That makes it the 4,164th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 35 are named German.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)21994164N/A35
United Kingdom (1881 census)139729810.00547
Change since 1881+802-1183-0.002-12
Other Countries
United States147692260N/A55
Australia1917865N/A12

Politics

People with the surname German 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 Independent.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Michael German
Paul German
Andrew German
Peter German
John German
David German
Richard German
Robert German
Christopher German
Ronald German
Timothy German
Stuart German

Top female forenames

Sarah German
Anne German
Karen German
Jacqueline German
Janet German
Elaine German
Angela German
Lisa German
Patricia German
Joanne German
Linda German
Alison German

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.