Surname statistics for Stephen

We don't have any stats on how common this name is. This is probably because it's very rare in the UK.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)0177600
United Kingdom (1881 census)52518470.018175
Change since 1881
Other Countries
United States893436550.00333
Australia126213140.00877

Politics

People with the surname Stephen 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 Stephen are:

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

Top male forenames

David Stephen
John Stephen
Robert Stephen
James Stephen
Andrew Stephen
Mark Stephen
Michael Stephen
Paul Stephen
William Stephen
Ian Stephen
Gordon Stephen
Alexander Stephen
Christopher Stephen
Peter Stephen
Kevin Stephen
George Stephen
Gary Stephen
Iain Stephen
Richard Stephen
Jamie Stephen

Top female forenames

Margaret Stephen
Mary Stephen
Anne Stephen
Jacqueline Stephen
Elizabeth Stephen
Sarah Stephen
Laura Stephen
Susan Stephen
Elaine Stephen
Fiona Stephen
Diane Stephen
Linda Stephen
Jennifer Stephen
Kathleen Stephen
Karen Stephen
Angela Stephen
Lynne Stephen
Gillian Stephen
Patricia Stephen
Janet Stephen

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.