Surname statistics for Canning

There are approximately 6,807 people named Canning in the UK. That makes it the 1,565th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 108 are named Canning.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)68071565N/A108
United Kingdom (1881 census)212820870.00771
Change since 1881+4679+522+0.004+37
Other Countries
United States38208010N/A14
Australia7812075N/A48

Politics

People with the surname Canning are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Canning
David Canning
Mark Canning
Paul Canning
Anthony Canning
James Canning
Michael Canning
Andrew Canning
Brian Canning
Martin Canning
Richard Canning
Thomas Canning
Peter Canning
Stephen Canning
Steven Canning
Gary Canning
Christopher Canning
Joseph Canning
Jason Canning
William Canning

Top female forenames

Margaret Canning
Catherine Canning
Sarah Canning
Susan Canning
Anne Canning
Angela Canning
Mary Canning
Elizabeth Canning
Ann Canning
Linda Canning
Fiona Canning
Lisa Canning
Emma Canning
Stacey Canning
Pamela Canning
Jennifer Canning
Rachel Canning
Christine Canning
Sara Canning
Deborah Canning

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.