Surname statistics for Hodson

There are approximately 11,611 people named Hodson in the UK. That makes it the 893rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 184 are named Hodson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11611893N/A184
United Kingdom (1881 census)61987030.021207
Change since 1881+5413-190-0.003-23
Other Countries
United States54305836N/A20
Australia10251615N/A63

Politics

People with the surname Hodson are 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (5)
  2. Conservative (3)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hodson
John Hodson
Paul Hodson
Christopher Hodson
Mark Hodson
James Hodson
Peter Hodson
Andrew Hodson
Michael Hodson
Richard Hodson
Stephen Hodson
Neil Hodson
Robert Hodson
Alan Hodson
Simon Hodson
Brian Hodson
Ian Hodson
William Hodson
Gary Hodson
Matthew Hodson

Top female forenames

Susan Hodson
Karen Hodson
Patricia Hodson
Carol Hodson
Jacqueline Hodson
Amanda Hodson
Caroline Hodson
Claire Hodson
Helen Hodson
Nicola Hodson
Margaret Hodson
Judith Hodson
Sarah Hodson
Rebecca Hodson
Christine Hodson
Kathleen Hodson
Catherine Hodson
Deborah Hodson
Julie Hodson
Louise Hodson

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.