Surname statistics for Young

There are approximately 130,401 people named Young in the UK. That makes it the 47th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 2,064 are named Young.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13040147N/A2064
United Kingdom (1881 census)64336380.2152148
Change since 1881+66065-9-0.009-84
Other Countries
United States46594831N/A1727
Australia2317828N/A1418

Politics

People with the surname Young 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (15)
  2. Labour (13)
  3. Liberal Democrat (3)
  4. Independent (2)
  5. Durham Independent (1)
  6. Liberal Democrat/Independent/Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Young
John Young
Robert Young
Andrew Young
Paul Young
Michael Young
James Young
Stephen Young
Peter Young
Richard Young
Alan Young
Christopher Young
Ian Young
William Young
Mark Young
Simon Young
Martin Young
Stuart Young
Colin Young
Brian Young

Top female forenames

Susan Young
Margaret Young
Elizabeth Young
Karen Young
Christine Young
Patricia Young
Sarah Young
Helen Young
Linda Young
Mary Young
Jacqueline Young
Jane Young
Gillian Young
Alison Young
Nicola Young
Lisa Young
Julie Young
Catherine Young
Elaine Young
Barbara Young

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.