Surname statistics for Dobbs

There are approximately 4,365 people named Dobbs in the UK. That makes it the 2,394th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 69 are named Dobbs.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43652394N/A69
United Kingdom (1881 census)202321840.00768
Change since 1881+2342-2100+1
Other Countries
United States180211829N/A67
Australia3794181N/A23

Politics

People with the surname Dobbs 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

Michael Dobbs
Richard Dobbs
John Dobbs
Matthew Dobbs
William Dobbs
Christopher Dobbs
Paul Dobbs
Peter Dobbs
Stephen Dobbs
Andrew Dobbs
James Dobbs
Gary Dobbs
Ian Dobbs
Jason Dobbs
Stuart Dobbs
Simon Dobbs
Edward Dobbs
David Dobbs
Alan Dobbs
Kevin Dobbs

Top female forenames

Linda Dobbs
Pauline Dobbs
Susan Dobbs
Margaret Dobbs
Samantha Dobbs
Sandra Dobbs
Edwina Dobbs
Joanna Dobbs
Tanya Dobbs
Jayne Dobbs
Sharon Dobbs
Michelle Dobbs
Paula Dobbs
Corinne Dobbs
Heidi Dobbs
Beverley Dobbs
Monica Dobbs
Anne Dobbs
Sally Dobbs
Ann Dobbs

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.