Surname statistics for Short

There are approximately 23,862 people named Short in the UK. That makes it the 419th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 378 are named Short.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)23862419N/A378
United Kingdom (1881 census)116983660.039391
Change since 1881+12164-53-0.001-13
Other Countries
United States55903536N/A207
Australia3423436N/A209

Politics

People with the surname Short are considerably 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Stratford First Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Short
John Short
Michael Short
Andrew Short
Peter Short
Stephen Short
Christopher Short
James Short
Paul Short
Ian Short
Martin Short
Richard Short
Robert Short
William Short
Mark Short
Jonathan Short
Gary Short
Alan Short
Philip Short
Anthony Short

Top female forenames

Susan Short
Mary Short
Margaret Short
Sarah Short
Helen Short
Patricia Short
Deborah Short
Catherine Short
Julie Short
Karen Short
Jane Short
Alison Short
Sandra Short
Claire Short
Anne Short
Lisa Short
Emma Short
Nicola Short
Kathleen Short
Gillian Short

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.