Surname statistics for Birkett

There are approximately 5,972 people named Birkett in the UK. That makes it the 1,750th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 95 are named Birkett.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)59721750N/A95
United Kingdom (1881 census)289015530.0197
Change since 1881+3082-197-0.001-2
Other Countries
United States122120270less than 0.0014
Australia5103150N/A31

Politics

People with the surname Birkett 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 Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Birkett
David Birkett
Andrew Birkett
Peter Birkett
Richard Birkett
William Birkett
Christopher Birkett
Alan Birkett
Michael Birkett
Ian Birkett
Paul Birkett
Mark Birkett
Lee Birkett
Timothy Birkett
Keith Birkett
Stephen Birkett
Geoffrey Birkett
Robert Birkett
Joseph Birkett
James Birkett

Top female forenames

Deborah Birkett
Susan Birkett
Linda Birkett
Jennifer Birkett
Amanda Birkett
Alison Birkett
Denise Birkett
Caroline Birkett
Lynne Birkett
Patricia Birkett
Pauline Birkett
Tracy Birkett
Paula Birkett
Lesley Birkett
Irene Birkett
Gail Birkett
Elizabeth Birkett
Kathryn Birkett
Angela Birkett
Sarah Birkett

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.