Surname statistics for Parmenter

There are approximately 2,783 people named Parmenter in the UK. That makes it the 3,476th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 44 are named Parmenter.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)27833476N/A44
United Kingdom (1881 census)79647060.00327
Change since 1881+1987+1230+0.001+17
Other Countries
United States31399498N/A12
Australia5033198N/A31

Politics

People with the surname Parmenter are slightly more 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Parmenter
David Parmenter
Gary Parmenter
Philip Parmenter
Michael Parmenter
Dale Parmenter
Matthew Parmenter
Roy Parmenter
Nigel Parmenter
Mark Parmenter
Jonathan Parmenter
Steven Parmenter
Robert Parmenter
Richard Parmenter
Paul Parmenter
Peter Parmenter
Martin Parmenter
Matt Parmenter
Neil Parmenter
Stephen Parmenter

Top female forenames

Julie Parmenter
Susan Parmenter
Sharon Parmenter
Ruth Parmenter
Michelle Parmenter
Melissa Parmenter
Suzanne Parmenter
Emma Parmenter
Elizabeth Parmenter
Angela Parmenter
Anne Parmenter
Sandra Parmenter
Carol Parmenter
Catherine Parmenter
Charlotte Parmenter
Maureen Parmenter
Lisa Parmenter
Lauren Parmenter
Claire Parmenter
Janis Parmenter

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.