Surname statistics for Sheridan

There are approximately 12,438 people named Sheridan in the UK. That makes it the 811th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 197 are named Sheridan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12438811N/A197
United Kingdom (1881 census)180224260.00660
Change since 1881+10636+1615+0.014+137
Other Countries
United States216681521N/A80
Australia2137756N/A131

Politics

People with the surname Sheridan are slightly less 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 Sheridan are:

  1. Labour (1)
  2. SNP (1)
  3. Green (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Sheridan
Paul Sheridan
Michael Sheridan
David Sheridan
Mark Sheridan
James Sheridan
Peter Sheridan
Thomas Sheridan
Robert Sheridan
Anthony Sheridan
Richard Sheridan
Brian Sheridan
Andrew Sheridan
Philip Sheridan
Patrick Sheridan
Alan Sheridan
Kevin Sheridan
Stephen Sheridan
Lee Sheridan
Joseph Sheridan

Top female forenames

Susan Sheridan
Mary Sheridan
Patricia Sheridan
Victoria Sheridan
Sarah Sheridan
Linda Sheridan
Caroline Sheridan
Fiona Sheridan
Clare Sheridan
Paula Sheridan
Claire Sheridan
Emma Sheridan
Elizabeth Sheridan
Anne Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan
Catherine Sheridan
Karen Sheridan
Jane Sheridan
Julie Sheridan
Christine Sheridan

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.