Surname statistics for Whiting

There are approximately 12,187 people named Whiting in the UK. That makes it the 832nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 193 are named Whiting.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12187832N/A193
United Kingdom (1881 census)57677720.019193
Change since 1881+6420-6000
Other Countries
United States157192116N/A58
Australia1876873N/A115

Politics

People with the surname Whiting 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 Whiting are:

  1. Conservative (5)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Whiting
John Whiting
Paul Whiting
Stephen Whiting
Michael Whiting
Richard Whiting
Robert Whiting
Andrew Whiting
Peter Whiting
Mark Whiting
Anthony Whiting
Matthew Whiting
James Whiting
Ian Whiting
Kevin Whiting
Steven Whiting
Gary Whiting
Christopher Whiting
Keith Whiting
Alan Whiting

Top female forenames

Susan Whiting
Deborah Whiting
Helen Whiting
Jane Whiting
Margaret Whiting
Sarah Whiting
Caroline Whiting
Patricia Whiting
Elizabeth Whiting
Angela Whiting
Amanda Whiting
Jacqueline Whiting
Janet Whiting
Catherine Whiting
Judith Whiting
Sandra Whiting
Louise Whiting
Elaine Whiting
Rebecca Whiting
Rachel Whiting

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.