Surname statistics for Cumming

There are approximately 8,625 people named Cumming in the UK. That makes it the 1,232nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 137 are named Cumming.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)86251232N/A137
United Kingdom (1881 census)57147770.019191
Change since 1881+2911-455-0.005-54
Other Countries
United States32829138N/A12
Australia1900864N/A116

Politics

People with the surname Cumming 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 Cumming are:

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

Top male forenames

David Cumming
John Cumming
James Cumming
Andrew Cumming
Ian Cumming
Robert Cumming
William Cumming
Michael Cumming
Richard Cumming
Stuart Cumming
Alexander Cumming
Alan Cumming
Brian Cumming
Gordon Cumming
Charles Cumming
Peter Cumming
Paul Cumming
Mark Cumming
Colin Cumming
Stephen Cumming

Top female forenames

Margaret Cumming
Susan Cumming
Elizabeth Cumming
Mary Cumming
Ann Cumming
Helen Cumming
Jane Cumming
Fiona Cumming
Jennifer Cumming
Josephine Cumming
Julie Cumming
Anna Cumming
Alison Cumming
Elaine Cumming
Jacqueline Cumming
Ruth Cumming
Heather Cumming
Linda Cumming
Catherine Cumming
Joanne Cumming

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.