Surname statistics for Heron

There are approximately 7,286 people named Heron in the UK. That makes it the 1,476th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 115 are named Heron.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)72861476N/A115
United Kingdom (1881 census)287215610.0196
Change since 1881+4414+85+0.002+19
Other Countries
United States35618519N/A13
Australia10471575N/A64

Politics

People with the surname Heron are 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 Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Heron are:

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

Top male forenames

David Heron
John Heron
Michael Heron
Robert Heron
Andrew Heron
Christopher Heron
James Heron
Peter Heron
Stephen Heron
Paul Heron
Steven Heron
Mark Heron
George Heron
Thomas Heron
William Heron
Philip Heron
Gary Heron
Stuart Heron
Keith Heron
Alan Heron

Top female forenames

Susan Heron
Patricia Heron
Lesley Heron
Claire Heron
Helen Heron
Elizabeth Heron
Marilyn Heron
Andrea Heron
Sarah Heron
Sharon Heron
Deborah Heron
Maureen Heron
Amanda Heron
Hazel Heron
Mary Heron
June Heron
Pauline Heron
Karen Heron
Julie Heron
Rachel Heron

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.