Surname statistics for Vernon

There are approximately 11,497 people named Vernon in the UK. That makes it the 906th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 182 are named Vernon.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11497906N/A182
United Kingdom (1881 census)49309040.016165
Change since 1881+6567-2+0.002+17
Other Countries
United States172671911N/A64
Australia11731408N/A72

Politics

People with the surname Vernon are 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 Vernon are:

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

Top male forenames

John Vernon
Paul Vernon
David Vernon
Mark Vernon
Richard Vernon
Michael Vernon
Peter Vernon
Andrew Vernon
James Vernon
Christopher Vernon
Stephen Vernon
Robert Vernon
Martin Vernon
Philip Vernon
Roger Vernon
Anthony Vernon
Graham Vernon
Keith Vernon
Ian Vernon
Jeremy Vernon

Top female forenames

Susan Vernon
Anne Vernon
Elizabeth Vernon
Hilary Vernon
Jane Vernon
Christine Vernon
Julie Vernon
Sally Vernon
Lesley Vernon
Karen Vernon
Jacqueline Vernon
Tracey Vernon
Gemma Vernon
Diane Vernon
Pamela Vernon
Sarah Vernon
Alison Vernon
Angela Vernon
Patricia Vernon
Leona Vernon

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.