Surname statistics for Kings

There are approximately 1,160 people named Kings in the UK. That makes it the 6,541th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 18 are named Kings.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11606541N/A18
United Kingdom (1881 census)58060750.00219
Change since 1881+580-4660-1
Other Countries
United States43446240less than 0.0012
Australia11113080N/A7

Top male forenames

Andrew Kings
David Kings
Mark Kings
Benjamin Kings
Stephen Kings
Marc Kings
Michael Kings
John Kings
Paul Kings

Top female forenames

Jacqueline Kings
Angela Kings
Christine Kings
Alison Kings
Deborah Kings
Gillian Kings
Jocelyn Kings
Philippa Kings
Susan Kings

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.