Surname statistics for Duncan

There are approximately 41,371 people named Duncan in the UK. That makes it the 207th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 655 are named Duncan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)41371207N/A655
United Kingdom (1881 census)204871810.068684
Change since 1881+20884-26-0.003-29
Other Countries
United States130419203N/A483
Australia7518168N/A460

Politics

People with the surname Duncan are slightly 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (4)
  2. Independent (2)
  3. SNP (2)
  4. Labour (1)
  5. UKIP (1)
  6. Green (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Duncan
David Duncan
Andrew Duncan
James Duncan
Ian Duncan
Robert Duncan
William Duncan
Peter Duncan
Paul Duncan
Stuart Duncan
Michael Duncan
Alan Duncan
Alexander Duncan
George Duncan
Mark Duncan
Keith Duncan
Brian Duncan
Graham Duncan
Neil Duncan
Scott Duncan

Top female forenames

Susan Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan
Anne Duncan
Margaret Duncan
Janet Duncan
Helen Duncan
Karen Duncan
Fiona Duncan
Linda Duncan
Claire Duncan
Kathleen Duncan
Jacqueline Duncan
Sandra Duncan
Jennifer Duncan
Christine Duncan
Gillian Duncan
Sharon Duncan
Sarah Duncan
Patricia Duncan
Barbara Duncan

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.