Surname statistics for Parr

There are approximately 14,832 people named Parr in the UK. That makes it the 682nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 235 are named Parr.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14832682N/A235
United Kingdom (1881 census)74825680.025250
Change since 1881+7350-114-0.002-15
Other Countries
United States161202057N/A60
Australia11301458N/A69

Politics

People with the surname Parr 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.

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

  1. Conservative (4)
  2. Labour (2)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Parr
John Parr
Michael Parr
Andrew Parr
Richard Parr
Stephen Parr
Christopher Parr
Simon Parr
James Parr
Jonathan Parr
William Parr
Philip Parr
Ian Parr
Nicholas Parr
Anthony Parr
Martin Parr
Robert Parr
Daniel Parr
Alan Parr
Steven Parr

Top female forenames

Susan Parr
Janet Parr
Alison Parr
Helen Parr
Jacqueline Parr
Sheila Parr
Christine Parr
Victoria Parr
Carole Parr
Julie Parr
Gillian Parr
Patricia Parr
Elizabeth Parr
Jennifer Parr
Margaret Parr
Emma Parr
Karen Parr
Anne Parr
Angela Parr
Jane Parr

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.