Surname statistics for Nichols

There are approximately 14,978 people named Nichols in the UK. That makes it the 675th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 237 are named Nichols.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14978675N/A237
United Kingdom (1881 census)97574400.033326
Change since 1881+5221-235-0.009-89
Other Countries
United States141936174N/A526
Australia3561416N/A218

Politics

People with the surname Nichols 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 Liberal Democrat.

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

  1. Liberal Democrat (3)
  2. Labour (1)
  3. UKIP (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Nichols
Paul Nichols
John Nichols
Andrew Nichols
Mark Nichols
Richard Nichols
Stephen Nichols
Robert Nichols
Peter Nichols
Christopher Nichols
Michael Nichols
James Nichols
Philip Nichols
Simon Nichols
Matthew Nichols
Adam Nichols
William Nichols
Jonathan Nichols
Anthony Nichols
Gary Nichols

Top female forenames

Sarah Nichols
Susan Nichols
Karen Nichols
Carol Nichols
Wendy Nichols
Christine Nichols
Jane Nichols
Sharon Nichols
Jacqueline Nichols
Janet Nichols
Deborah Nichols
Margaret Nichols
Judith Nichols
Gillian Nichols
Elizabeth Nichols
Patricia Nichols
Pamela Nichols
Julie Nichols
Tracey Nichols
Sally Nichols

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.