Surname statistics for Churchill

There are approximately 8,373 people named Churchill in the UK. That makes it the 1,279th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 133 are named Churchill.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)83731279N/A133
United Kingdom (1881 census)355312760.012119
Change since 1881+4820-3+0.001+14
Other Countries
United States121082735N/A45
Australia11651416N/A71

Politics

People with the surname Churchill 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (4)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Churchill
David Churchill
Peter Churchill
Richard Churchill
Andrew Churchill
Paul Churchill
Robert Churchill
Michael Churchill
Mark Churchill
James Churchill
Simon Churchill
Anthony Churchill
Christopher Churchill
Gary Churchill
Thomas Churchill
Alan Churchill
Stephen Churchill
Jonathan Churchill
Keith Churchill
Kevin Churchill

Top female forenames

Susan Churchill
Sarah Churchill
Patricia Churchill
Lisa Churchill
Sandra Churchill
Victoria Churchill
Julie Churchill
Wendy Churchill
Pauline Churchill
Angela Churchill
Jennifer Churchill
Jacqueline Churchill
Jane Churchill
Karen Churchill
Elizabeth Churchill
Lucy Churchill
Valerie Churchill
Jean Churchill
Mary Churchill
Lynne Churchill

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.