Surname statistics for Kershaw

There are approximately 12,065 people named Kershaw in the UK. That makes it the 846th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 191 are named Kershaw.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12065846N/A191
United Kingdom (1881 census)96594460.032323
Change since 1881+2406-400-0.013-132
Other Countries
United States48196496N/A18
Australia11351449N/A69

Politics

People with the surname Kershaw 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Kershaw
Paul Kershaw
John Kershaw
Andrew Kershaw
Peter Kershaw
Richard Kershaw
Christopher Kershaw
Mark Kershaw
Simon Kershaw
Stephen Kershaw
Ian Kershaw
Michael Kershaw
James Kershaw
Robert Kershaw
Stuart Kershaw
Steven Kershaw
Alan Kershaw
Anthony Kershaw
Philip Kershaw
Geoffrey Kershaw

Top female forenames

Susan Kershaw
Sarah Kershaw
Elizabeth Kershaw
Mary Kershaw
Helen Kershaw
Margaret Kershaw
Jacqueline Kershaw
Victoria Kershaw
Julie Kershaw
Anne Kershaw
Christine Kershaw
Catherine Kershaw
Emma Kershaw
Ruth Kershaw
Pauline Kershaw
Patricia Kershaw
Karen Kershaw
Janet Kershaw
Kathleen Kershaw
Jane Kershaw

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.