Surname statistics for Higginson

There are approximately 5,809 people named Higginson in the UK. That makes it the 1,800th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 92 are named Higginson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)58091800N/A92
United Kingdom (1881 census)299814940.01100
Change since 1881+2811-306-0.001-8
Other Countries
United States174515421N/A6
Australia4503540N/A28

Politics

People with the surname Higginson 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

David Higginson
Stephen Higginson
Andrew Higginson
John Higginson
Paul Higginson
Michael Higginson
Timothy Higginson
Philip Higginson
Robert Higginson
Neil Higginson
Mark Higginson
Peter Higginson
Anthony Higginson
Ian Higginson
Alan Higginson
Martin Higginson
Brian Higginson
William Higginson
Thomas Higginson
Steven Higginson

Top female forenames

Susan Higginson
Elizabeth Higginson
Jane Higginson
Margaret Higginson
Janet Higginson
Karen Higginson
Linda Higginson
Helen Higginson
Deborah Higginson
Patricia Higginson
Louise Higginson
Angela Higginson
Sarah Higginson
Carol Higginson
Lisa Higginson
Jill Higginson
Sandra Higginson
Jennifer Higginson
Elaine Higginson
Nicole Higginson

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.