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HENRY

Surname statistics for Henry

There are approximately 25,136 people named Henry in the UK. That makes it the 390th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 398 are named Henry.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)25136390N/A398
United Kingdom (1881 census)75705610.025253
Change since 1881+17566+171+0.015+145
Other Countries
United States161392142N/A598
Australia4927288N/A301

Politics

People with the surname Henry are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Henry are:

  1. Labour (6)
  2. Conservative (1)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Henry
Paul Henry
Michael Henry
David Henry
Robert Henry
Peter Henry
James Henry
Ian Henry
William Henry
Richard Henry
Stephen Henry
Andrew Henry
Mark Henry
Christopher Henry
Thomas Henry
Anthony Henry
Simon Henry
Brian Henry
Martin Henry
Kevin Henry

Top female forenames

Patricia Henry
Susan Henry
Margaret Henry
Elizabeth Henry
Karen Henry
Sarah Henry
Michelle Henry
Janet Henry
Jennifer Henry
Angela Henry
Sharon Henry
Mary Henry
Pamela Henry
Linda Henry
Jacqueline Henry
Gillian Henry
Donna Henry
Deborah Henry
Pauline Henry
Jane Henry

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.