Surname statistics for Knight

There are approximately 80,146 people named Knight in the UK. That makes it the 89th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,268 are named Knight.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)8014689N/A1268
United Kingdom (1881 census)36915830.1231233
Change since 1881+43231-6+0.004+35
Other Countries
United States131860199N/A489
Australia10662100N/A652

Politics

People with the surname Knight 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (12)
  2. Labour (9)
  3. Liberal Democrat (6)
  4. Morecambe Bay Independents (1)
  5. Runnymede Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Knight
John Knight
Paul Knight
Andrew Knight
Peter Knight
Richard Knight
Michael Knight
Christopher Knight
Robert Knight
James Knight
Stephen Knight
Mark Knight
Anthony Knight
William Knight
Simon Knight
Alan Knight
Ian Knight
Matthew Knight
Steven Knight
Jonathan Knight

Top female forenames

Susan Knight
Sarah Knight
Gillian Knight
Elizabeth Knight
Julie Knight
Jane Knight
Patricia Knight
Janet Knight
Deborah Knight
Margaret Knight
Linda Knight
Sally Knight
Christine Knight
Jennifer Knight
Helen Knight
Karen Knight
Caroline Knight
Emma Knight
Barbara Knight
Sharon Knight

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.