Surname statistics for Parsons

There are approximately 45,452 people named Parsons in the UK. That makes it the 182nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 719 are named Parsons.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)45452182N/A719
United Kingdom (1881 census)227511510.076760
Change since 1881+22701-31-0.004-41
Other Countries
United States66203453N/A245
Australia6475202N/A396

Politics

People with the surname Parsons 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 Parsons are:

  1. Conservative (7)
  2. Independent (4)
  3. Labour (2)
  4. Liberal Democrat (1)
  5. UKIP (1)
  6. Middlewich First (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

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

Top female forenames

Susan Parsons
Elizabeth Parsons
Emma Parsons
Sarah Parsons
Caroline Parsons
Margaret Parsons
Julie Parsons
Jane Parsons
Christine Parsons
Helen Parsons
Jennifer Parsons
Gillian Parsons
Alison Parsons
Lisa Parsons
Catherine Parsons
Sandra Parsons
Janet Parsons
Carol Parsons
Mary Parsons
Angela Parsons

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.