Surname statistics for Harris

There are approximately 178,036 people named Harris in the UK. That makes it the 20th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 2,818 are named Harris.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)17803620N/A2818
United Kingdom (1881 census)76108270.2542541
Change since 1881+101928+7+0.028+277
Other Countries
United States59354224N/A2200
Australia2602515N/A1592

Politics

People with the surname Harris 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 Harris are:

  1. Conservative (19)
  2. Labour (15)
  3. Liberal Democrat (9)
  4. Independent (4)
  5. Green (1)
  6. Non-Aligned (1)
  7. Nork Resident's Association (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Harris
John Harris
Paul Harris
Michael Harris
Mark Harris
Richard Harris
Peter Harris
Andrew Harris
Robert Harris
Stephen Harris
Christopher Harris
James Harris
Simon Harris
Anthony Harris
Philip Harris
Ian Harris
Neil Harris
Martin Harris
Steven Harris
Jonathan Harris

Top female forenames

Susan Harris
Sarah Harris
Elizabeth Harris
Margaret Harris
Deborah Harris
Jane Harris
Karen Harris
Patricia Harris
Jacqueline Harris
Christine Harris
Julie Harris
Nicola Harris
Joanne Harris
Jennifer Harris
Sandra Harris
Barbara Harris
Catherine Harris
Linda Harris
Helen Harris
Gillian Harris

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.