Surname statistics for Perry

There are approximately 52,738 people named Perry in the UK. That makes it the 147th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 835 are named Perry.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)52738147N/A835
United Kingdom (1881 census)220241570.074735
Change since 1881+30714+10+0.009+100
Other Countries
United States21264497N/A788
Australia8208146N/A502

Politics

People with the surname Perry 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 Perry are:

  1. Conservative (12)
  2. Labour (6)
  3. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Perry
John Perry
Michael Perry
Mark Perry
Robert Perry
Richard Perry
Andrew Perry
Stephen Perry
Simon Perry
Martin Perry
James Perry
Christopher Perry
Ian Perry
Anthony Perry
Alan Perry
Colin Perry
Brian Perry
Philip Perry
Keith Perry
William Perry

Top female forenames

Susan Perry
Karen Perry
Sarah Perry
Helen Perry
Patricia Perry
Elizabeth Perry
Julie Perry
Linda Perry
Margaret Perry
Anne Perry
Jane Perry
Claire Perry
Janet Perry
Deborah Perry
Jennifer Perry
Jacqueline Perry
Carol Perry
Joanne Perry
Christine Perry
Mary Perry

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.