Surname statistics for Johnson

There are approximately 213,006 people named Johnson in the UK. That makes it the 11th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 3,371 are named Johnson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)21300611N/A3371
United Kingdom (1881 census)100622110.3363360
Change since 1881+1123840+0.001+11
Other Countries
United States1857160216884
Australia334357N/A2045

Politics

People with the surname Johnson are slightly 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (28)
  2. Labour (28)
  3. Liberal Democrat (4)
  4. Green (2)
  5. UKIP (1)
  6. Plaid Cymru (1)
  7. Labour and Co-operative (1)
  8. Tendring First (1)
  9. New Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Johnson
Paul Johnson
Michael Johnson
Mark Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Peter Johnson
Robert Johnson
Ian Johnson
Richard Johnson
Stephen Johnson
Christopher Johnson
John Johnson
Alan Johnson
Brian Johnson
Anthony Johnson
Steven Johnson
James Johnson
Simon Johnson
Philip Johnson
Neil Johnson

Top female forenames

Susan Johnson
Sarah Johnson
Margaret Johnson
Karen Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Christine Johnson
Helen Johnson
Patricia Johnson
Linda Johnson
Julie Johnson
Jane Johnson
Janet Johnson
Jennifer Johnson
Mary Johnson
Alison Johnson
Jacqueline Johnson
Lisa Johnson
Carol Johnson
Joanne Johnson
Angela Johnson

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.