Surname statistics for Kirkham

There are approximately 8,811 people named Kirkham in the UK. That makes it the 1,211th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 139 are named Kirkham.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)88111211N/A139
United Kingdom (1881 census)417810810.014140
Change since 1881+4633-1300-1
Other Countries
United States39337794N/A15
Australia6752395N/A41

Politics

People with the surname Kirkham 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Kirkham
John Kirkham
Peter Kirkham
Michael Kirkham
Paul Kirkham
Ian Kirkham
Andrew Kirkham
Stephen Kirkham
James Kirkham
Richard Kirkham
Robert Kirkham
Alan Kirkham
Graham Kirkham
Jonathan Kirkham
Anthony Kirkham
Simon Kirkham
Christopher Kirkham
Philip Kirkham
Roger Kirkham
Stuart Kirkham

Top female forenames

Susan Kirkham
Carol Kirkham
Karen Kirkham
Mary Kirkham
Jane Kirkham
Linda Kirkham
Julie Kirkham
Elaine Kirkham
Ann Kirkham
Samantha Kirkham
Frances Kirkham
Margaret Kirkham
Helen Kirkham
Patricia Kirkham
Alison Kirkham
Janet Kirkham
Pauline Kirkham
Sandra Kirkham
Debbie Kirkham
Christine Kirkham

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.