Surname statistics for Dickens

There are approximately 8,016 people named Dickens in the UK. That makes it the 1,353rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 127 are named Dickens.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)80161353N/A127
United Kingdom (1881 census)313314410.01105
Change since 1881+4883+88+0.003+22
Other Countries
United States181811814N/A67
Australia5892753N/A36

Top male forenames

John Dickens
Paul Dickens
David Dickens
Peter Dickens
James Dickens
Andrew Dickens
Stephen Dickens
Michael Dickens
Philip Dickens
Mark Dickens
Charles Dickens
Christopher Dickens
Robert Dickens
Simon Dickens
Anthony Dickens
Richard Dickens
Timothy Dickens
Matthew Dickens
Neil Dickens
Colin Dickens

Top female forenames

Christine Dickens
Jane Dickens
Anne Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens
Susan Dickens
Deborah Dickens
Karen Dickens
Claire Dickens
Pamela Dickens
Catherine Dickens
Nicola Dickens
Natalie Dickens
Kathleen Dickens
Helen Dickens
Joanne Dickens
Sarah Dickens
Julie Dickens
Elaine Dickens
Tracey Dickens
Stephanie Dickens

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.