Surname statistics for Kirby

There are approximately 23,716 people named Kirby in the UK. That makes it the 423rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 375 are named Kirby.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)23716423N/A375
United Kingdom (1881 census)113633760.038379
Change since 1881+12353-470-4
Other Countries
United States52473577N/A194
Australia2711579N/A166

Politics

People with the surname Kirby 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 Kirby are:

  1. Labour (5)
  2. Conservative (4)
  3. Ingleby Barwick Independent Society (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Kirby
John Kirby
Michael Kirby
Andrew Kirby
Paul Kirby
James Kirby
Peter Kirby
Richard Kirby
Mark Kirby
Stephen Kirby
Robert Kirby
Christopher Kirby
Ian Kirby
Matthew Kirby
Anthony Kirby
Simon Kirby
Steven Kirby
Gary Kirby
Jonathan Kirby
Stuart Kirby

Top female forenames

Susan Kirby
Jacqueline Kirby
Karen Kirby
Helen Kirby
Sarah Kirby
Margaret Kirby
Carol Kirby
Julie Kirby
Louise Kirby
Jennifer Kirby
Christine Kirby
Emma Kirby
Jane Kirby
Valerie Kirby
Joanne Kirby
Claire Kirby
Wendy Kirby
Linda Kirby
Maureen Kirby
Deborah Kirby

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.