Surname statistics for Higson

There are approximately 3,262 people named Higson in the UK. That makes it the 3,062nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 52 are named Higson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)32623062N/A52
United Kingdom (1881 census)191522850.00664
Change since 1881+1347-777-0.001-12
Other Countries
United States24573659less than 0.0011
Australia1639088N/A10

Top male forenames

Peter Higson
John Higson
David Higson
Richard Higson
Mark Higson
Michael Higson
Stephen Higson
Andrew Higson
Paul Higson
Philip Higson
Alan Higson
James Higson
Charles Higson
Malcolm Higson
Ian Higson
Robert Higson
Martin Higson
Christopher Higson
William Higson
Steven Higson

Top female forenames

Susan Higson
Ann Higson
Frances Higson
Jane Higson
Patricia Higson
Francoise Higson
Clare Higson
Joanne Higson
Angela Higson
Sarah Higson
Margaret Higson
Judith Higson
Kathleen Higson
Lynn Higson
Tanya Higson
Lesley Higson
Elizabeth Higson
Claire Higson
Deborah Higson
Sandra Higson

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.