Surname statistics for Lincoln

There are approximately 5,915 people named Lincoln in the UK. That makes it the 1,767th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 94 are named Lincoln.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)59151767N/A94
United Kingdom (1881 census)225719860.00875
Change since 1881+3658+219+0.001+19
Other Countries
United States160702068N/A60
Australia10191627N/A62

Politics

People with the surname Lincoln 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 Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Paul Lincoln
David Lincoln
John Lincoln
Anthony Lincoln
Richard Lincoln
Peter Lincoln
Stephen Lincoln
Christopher Lincoln
Michael Lincoln
Andrew Lincoln
Roger Lincoln
Simon Lincoln
Mark Lincoln
Steven Lincoln
Oliver Lincoln
Timothy Lincoln
Gary Lincoln
Nicholas Lincoln
Darren Lincoln
Trevor Lincoln

Top female forenames

Susan Lincoln
Eileen Lincoln
Margaret Lincoln
Karen Lincoln
Deborah Lincoln
Alison Lincoln
Elizabeth Lincoln
Sarah Lincoln
Claire Lincoln
Cheryl Lincoln
Catherine Lincoln
Janet Lincoln
Julie Lincoln
Patricia Lincoln
Judith Lincoln
Irene Lincoln
Linda Lincoln
Katherine Lincoln
Carol Lincoln
Lisa Lincoln

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.