Surname statistics for Hand

There are approximately 6,491 people named Hand in the UK. That makes it the 1,630th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 103 are named Hand.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)64911630N/A103
United Kingdom (1881 census)359312550.012120
Change since 1881+2898-375-0.002-17
Other Countries
United States220341481N/A82
Australia12091370N/A74

Top male forenames

Stephen Hand
David Hand
John Hand
Paul Hand
Michael Hand
Peter Hand
Christopher Hand
Philip Hand
Richard Hand
Thomas Hand
Steven Hand
James Hand
Robert Hand
Kevin Hand
Anthony Hand
Terence Hand
Mark Hand
Jonathan Hand
Graham Hand
Gary Hand

Top female forenames

Linda Hand
Patricia Hand
Jane Hand
Elizabeth Hand
Julie Hand
Lorraine Hand
Janice Hand
Alison Hand
Caroline Hand
Charlotte Hand
Lisa Hand
Anne Hand
Nicola Hand
Judith Hand
Pauline Hand
Karen Hand
Jennifer Hand
Elaine Hand
Mary Hand
Pamela Hand

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.