Surname statistics for Hopkins

There are approximately 38,434 people named Hopkins in the UK. That makes it the 228th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 608 are named Hopkins.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)38434228N/A608
United Kingdom (1881 census)180332110.06602
Change since 1881+20401-17+0.001+6
Other Countries
United States94603289N/A351
Australia4218347N/A258

Politics

People with the surname Hopkins are slightly 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (6)
  2. Conservative (5)
  3. Liberal Democrat (2)
  4. Independent (2)
  5. Plaid Cymru (1)
  6. Molesey Resident's Assocication (1)
  7. Independent/Green (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hopkins
John Hopkins
Paul Hopkins
Mark Hopkins
Peter Hopkins
Michael Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins
Richard Hopkins
Andrew Hopkins
James Hopkins
Robert Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Christopher Hopkins
Philip Hopkins
Alan Hopkins
William Hopkins
Simon Hopkins
Ian Hopkins
Nicholas Hopkins
Gary Hopkins

Top female forenames

Sarah Hopkins
Susan Hopkins
Margaret Hopkins
Christine Hopkins
Elizabeth Hopkins
Mary Hopkins
Jane Hopkins
Anne Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
Helen Hopkins
Carol Hopkins
Jacqueline Hopkins
Rebecca Hopkins
Catherine Hopkins
Joanne Hopkins
Claire Hopkins
Clare Hopkins
Nicola Hopkins
Denise Hopkins
Janet Hopkins

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.