Surname statistics for Sowden

There are approximately 2,702 people named Sowden in the UK. That makes it the 3,571th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 43 are named Sowden.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)27023571N/A43
United Kingdom (1881 census)169325540.00657
Change since 1881+1009-1017-0.002-14
Other Countries
United States77928751less than 0.0013
Australia3105042N/A19

Politics

People with the surname Sowden 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 Free Independent.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Sowden
Robert Sowden
Peter Sowden
John Sowden
Paul Sowden
Richard Sowden
James Sowden
Anthony Sowden
Andrew Sowden
Michael Sowden
Mark Sowden
Philip Sowden
Neil Sowden
Russell Sowden
Simon Sowden
Wayne Sowden
Christopher Sowden
Keith Sowden
Stephen Sowden
Brian Sowden

Top female forenames

Gillian Sowden
Janet Sowden
Nicola Sowden
Brenda Sowden
Julie Sowden
Christine Sowden
Kate Sowden
Kimberley Sowden
Leah Sowden
Polly Sowden
Sara Sowden
Judith Sowden
Jill Sowden
Anne Sowden
Gemma Sowden
Elizabeth Sowden
Eileen Sowden
Claire Sowden
Carole Sowden
Bronwyn Sowden

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.