Surname statistics for Hastings

There are approximately 9,436 people named Hastings in the UK. That makes it the 1,117th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 149 are named Hastings.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)94361117N/A149
United Kingdom (1881 census)381411960.013127
Change since 1881+5622+79+0.002+22
Other Countries
United States272011183N/A101
Australia11771402N/A72

Politics

People with the surname Hastings 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 Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hastings
John Hastings
Paul Hastings
William Hastings
Robert Hastings
Mark Hastings
Richard Hastings
Michael Hastings
Peter Hastings
Andrew Hastings
Steven Hastings
James Hastings
Ian Hastings
Christopher Hastings
Stephen Hastings
Colin Hastings
Kevin Hastings
Alan Hastings
George Hastings
Timothy Hastings

Top female forenames

Susan Hastings
Julie Hastings
Anne Hastings
Elizabeth Hastings
Karen Hastings
Patricia Hastings
Gillian Hastings
Louise Hastings
Samantha Hastings
Jacqueline Hastings
Sarah Hastings
Diane Hastings
Teresa Hastings
Christine Hastings
Laura Hastings
Margaret Hastings
Linda Hastings
Alison Hastings
Anna Hastings
Claire Hastings

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.