Surname statistics for Wilkins

There are approximately 24,901 people named Wilkins in the UK. That makes it the 399th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 394 are named Wilkins.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)24901399N/A394
United Kingdom (1881 census)132363090.044442
Change since 1881+11665-90-0.005-48
Other Countries
United States56068532N/A208
Australia3078502N/A188

Politics

People with the surname Wilkins are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Wilkins are:

  1. Conservative (7)
  2. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Wilkins
John Wilkins
Paul Wilkins
Mark Wilkins
Peter Wilkins
Andrew Wilkins
Michael Wilkins
Robert Wilkins
Richard Wilkins
Stephen Wilkins
Christopher Wilkins
Ian Wilkins
James Wilkins
Simon Wilkins
Steven Wilkins
Brian Wilkins
William Wilkins
Anthony Wilkins
Alan Wilkins
Matthew Wilkins

Top female forenames

Susan Wilkins
Sarah Wilkins
Julie Wilkins
Janet Wilkins
Samantha Wilkins
Christine Wilkins
Helen Wilkins
Sandra Wilkins
Nicola Wilkins
Anne Wilkins
Karen Wilkins
Margaret Wilkins
Deborah Wilkins
Louise Wilkins
Elizabeth Wilkins
Linda Wilkins
Patricia Wilkins
Angela Wilkins
Sharon Wilkins
Lisa Wilkins

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.