Surname statistics for Osborne

There are approximately 37,266 people named Osborne in the UK. That makes it the 241th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 590 are named Osborne.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)37266241N/A590
United Kingdom (1881 census)142932850.048477
Change since 1881+22973+44+0.011+113
Other Countries
United States65802457N/A244
Australia5462256N/A334

Politics

People with the surname Osborne 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 Osborne are:

  1. Conservative (11)
  2. Labour (5)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Osborne
David Osborne
Mark Osborne
Michael Osborne
Paul Osborne
Peter Osborne
Andrew Osborne
Richard Osborne
Stephen Osborne
James Osborne
Ian Osborne
Simon Osborne
Christopher Osborne
Robert Osborne
Anthony Osborne
William Osborne
Martin Osborne
Neil Osborne
Gary Osborne
Alan Osborne

Top female forenames

Susan Osborne
Sarah Osborne
Nicola Osborne
Julie Osborne
Linda Osborne
Janet Osborne
Karen Osborne
Helen Osborne
Joanne Osborne
Jennifer Osborne
Emma Osborne
Barbara Osborne
Jane Osborne
Margaret Osborne
Elizabeth Osborne
Claire Osborne
Carol Osborne
Pamela Osborne
Christine Osborne
Ann Osborne

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.