Surname statistics for Holliday

There are approximately 8,876 people named Holliday in the UK. That makes it the 1,199th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 140 are named Holliday.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)88761199N/A140
United Kingdom (1881 census)392711570.013131
Change since 1881+4949-42+0.001+9
Other Countries
United States194881686N/A72
Australia8491931N/A52

Politics

People with the surname Holliday 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 Independent.

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

  1. Independent (2)
  2. Conservative (1)
  3. Labour (1)
  4. Liberal Democrat (1)
  5. West Cumbria Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Holliday
David Holliday
Michael Holliday
Peter Holliday
Richard Holliday
Paul Holliday
Stephen Holliday
Andrew Holliday
Christopher Holliday
James Holliday
Ian Holliday
Mark Holliday
Alan Holliday
Robert Holliday
Daniel Holliday
Philip Holliday
Stuart Holliday
Graham Holliday
Matthew Holliday
Simon Holliday

Top female forenames

Susan Holliday
Anne Holliday
Patricia Holliday
Sarah Holliday
Tracey Holliday
Janet Holliday
Alison Holliday
Elizabeth Holliday
Lesley Holliday
Wendy Holliday
Margaret Holliday
Christine Holliday
Karen Holliday
Samantha Holliday
Frances Holliday
Angela Holliday
Joanne Holliday
Ann Holliday
Claire Holliday
Janice Holliday

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.