Surname statistics for Seymour

There are approximately 16,795 people named Seymour in the UK. That makes it the 603rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 266 are named Seymour.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16795603N/A266
United Kingdom (1881 census)61217180.02204
Change since 1881+10674+115+0.007+62
Other Countries
United States244271327N/A91
Australia2802562N/A171

Politics

People with the surname Seymour 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 Seymour are:

  1. Conservative (6)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Seymour
Mark Seymour
John Seymour
Paul Seymour
Robert Seymour
Andrew Seymour
Michael Seymour
James Seymour
Richard Seymour
Stephen Seymour
Christopher Seymour
Peter Seymour
Anthony Seymour
Colin Seymour
Ian Seymour
Philip Seymour
Matthew Seymour
Brian Seymour
Martin Seymour
Graham Seymour

Top female forenames

Jane Seymour
Elizabeth Seymour
Susan Seymour
Sarah Seymour
Barbara Seymour
Margaret Seymour
Patricia Seymour
Karen Seymour
Julie Seymour
Gillian Seymour
Christine Seymour
Linda Seymour
Anne Seymour
Janet Seymour
Jacqueline Seymour
Sandra Seymour
Nicola Seymour
Claire Seymour
Maureen Seymour
Lisa Seymour

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.