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RUST

Surname statistics for Rust

There are approximately 3,611 people named Rust in the UK. That makes it the 2,798th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 57 are named Rust.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)36112798N/A57
United Kingdom (1881 census)158026990.00553
Change since 1881+2031-99+0.001+4
Other Countries
United States118162795N/A44
Australia3854121N/A24

Politics

People with the surname Rust are 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

Richard Rust
David Rust
Michael Rust
Peter Rust
Paul Rust
Stephen Rust
Andrew Rust
James Rust
Donald Rust
Nicholas Rust
Jonathan Rust
Simon Rust
Brian Rust
Keith Rust
Steven Rust
Christopher Rust
Philip Rust
Daniel Rust
John Rust
Kevin Rust

Top female forenames

Susan Rust
Linda Rust
Karen Rust
Gillian Rust
Patricia Rust
Camille Rust
Tracey Rust
Clare Rust
Catherine Rust
Shirley Rust
Sharon Rust
Sarah Rust
Rosemary Rust
Louise Rust
Corinne Rust
Laura Rust
Frances Rust
Joyce Rust
Joanne Rust
Joan Rust

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.