Surname statistics for Houston

There are approximately 12,576 people named Houston in the UK. That makes it the 804th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 199 are named Houston.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12576804N/A199
United Kingdom (1881 census)381411970.013127
Change since 1881+8762+393+0.007+72
Other Countries
United States54026563N/A200
Australia1805901N/A110

Politics

People with the surname Houston 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 SNP.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Houston
John Houston
Robert Houston
Paul Houston
Thomas Houston
James Houston
William Houston
Andrew Houston
Mark Houston
Peter Houston
Brian Houston
Stuart Houston
Alan Houston
Michael Houston
Kevin Houston
Craig Houston
Neil Houston
Stephen Houston
Ian Houston
Steven Houston

Top female forenames

Fiona Houston
Patricia Houston
Alison Houston
Anne Houston
Margaret Houston
Sarah Houston
Catherine Houston
Susan Houston
Jane Houston
Angela Houston
Gillian Houston
Julie Houston
Elizabeth Houston
Laura Houston
Anna Houston
Deborah Houston
Helen Houston
Janet Houston
Nicola Houston
Marie Houston

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.