Surname statistics for Hansen

There are approximately 9,890 people named Hansen in the UK. That makes it the 1,068th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 157 are named Hansen.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)98901068N/A157
United Kingdom (1881 census)55063410.00218
Change since 1881+9340+5273+0.014+139
Other Countries
United States133474193N/A495
Australia6519200N/A399

Politics

People with the surname Hansen are 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Peter Hansen
Lars Hansen
Thomas Hansen
Michael Hansen
John Hansen
Andrew Hansen
Henrik Hansen
Hans Hansen
Richard Hansen
Robert Hansen
Morten Hansen
Jan Hansen
Finn Hansen
Martin Hansen
Paul Hansen
Jens Hansen
Ole Hansen
David Hansen
Stig Hansen
Kenneth Hansen

Top female forenames

Ann Hansen
Marianne Hansen
Lisa Hansen
Susan Hansen
Jane Hansen
Tina Hansen
Anita Hansen
Helen Hansen
Joanne Hansen
Karen Hansen
Jennifer Hansen
Robin Hansen
Elizabeth Hansen
Helle Hansen
Mary Hansen
Rebecca Hansen
Mette Hansen
Sarah Hansen
Alison Hansen
Anne Hansen

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.