Surname statistics for Somerville

There are approximately 6,037 people named Somerville in the UK. That makes it the 1,729th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 96 are named Somerville.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)60371729N/A96
United Kingdom (1881 census)249317960.00883
Change since 1881+3544+67+0.002+13
Other Countries
United States64195015N/A24
Australia13581217N/A83

Politics

People with the surname Somerville are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Somerville are:

  1. Conservative (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Somerville
David Somerville
Andrew Somerville
Robert Somerville
James Somerville
William Somerville
Alan Somerville
Paul Somerville
Richard Somerville
Michael Somerville
Ian Somerville
Colin Somerville
Mark Somerville
Peter Somerville
Thomas Somerville
Kevin Somerville
Craig Somerville
Nicholas Somerville
Alexander Somerville
Kenneth Somerville

Top female forenames

Mary Somerville
Helen Somerville
Laura Somerville
Susan Somerville
Janet Somerville
Patricia Somerville
Fiona Somerville
Carol Somerville
Nicola Somerville
Margaret Somerville
Lynne Somerville
Catherine Somerville
Yvonne Somerville
Katherine Somerville
Michelle Somerville
Jacqueline Somerville
Rachel Somerville
Ann Somerville
Sheena Somerville
Christine Somerville

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.