Surname statistics for Moss

There are approximately 39,505 people named Moss in the UK. That makes it the 221th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 625 are named Moss.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)39505221N/A625
United Kingdom (1881 census)184582060.062616
Change since 1881+21047-15+0.001+9
Other Countries
United States73750389N/A273
Australia4200350N/A257

Politics

People with the surname Moss are slightly 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.

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

  1. Labour (6)
  2. Conservative (3)
  3. Alderman (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Moss
John Moss
Paul Moss
Andrew Moss
Peter Moss
Stephen Moss
Richard Moss
Michael Moss
Christopher Moss
Ian Moss
Robert Moss
James Moss
Alan Moss
Simon Moss
Steven Moss
Anthony Moss
Brian Moss
Jonathan Moss
Gary Moss
Kevin Moss

Top female forenames

Susan Moss
Sarah Moss
Margaret Moss
Jane Moss
Jacqueline Moss
Karen Moss
Nicola Moss
Julie Moss
Alison Moss
Jennifer Moss
Ann Moss
Elizabeth Moss
Linda Moss
Lisa Moss
Janet Moss
Patricia Moss
Carol Moss
Amanda Moss
Angela Moss
Christine Moss

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.