Appendix:English surnames (England and Wales)

Below is a list of the 250 most common surnames in England, Wales and the Isle of Man in September 2002. The data includes persons who had died during 1998 - 2002. The number of bearers is given for the ten most common names, and as a sample in intervals of 50. The source does not specify capital letters (Mcdonald=McDonald).


1. Smith 652,563
2. Jones 538,874
3. Williams 380,379
4. Taylor 306,296
5. Brown 291,872
6. Davies 279,647
7. Evans 222,580
8. Thomas 202,773
9. Wilson 201,224
10. Johnson 193,260
11. Roberts
12. Robinson
13. Thompson
14. Wright
15. Walker
16. White
17. Edwards
18. Hughes
19. Green
20. Hall
21. Lewis
22. Harris
23. Clarke
24. Patel
25. Jackson
26. Wood
27. Turner
28. Martin
29. Cooper
30. Hill
31. Morris
32. Ward
33. Moore
34. Clark
35. Baker
36. Harrison
37. King
38. Morgan
39. Lee
40. Allen
41. James
42. Phillips
43. Scott
44. Watson
45. Davis
46. Parker
47. Bennett
48. Price
49. Griffiths
50. Young 92,305
51. Khan
52. Mitchell
53. Cook
54. Bailey
55. Carter
56. Richardson
57. Shaw
58. Kelly
59. Collins
60. Bell
61. Hussain
62. Richards
63. Cox
64. Miller
65. Begum
66. Murphy
67. Ali
68. Marshall
69. Simpson
70. Anderson
71. Ellis
72. Adams
73. Wilkinson
74. Ahmed
75. Foster
76. Powell
77. Chapman
78. Singh
79. Webb
80. Rogers
81. Mason
82. Gray
83. Hunt
84. Owen
85. Matthews
86. Palmer
87. Holmes
88. Mills
89. Campbell
90. Lloyd
91. Barnes
92. Knight
93. Butler
94. Russell
95. Barker
96. Stevens
97. Jenkins
98. Dixon
99. Fisher
100. Harvey 57,435
101. Pearson
102. Murray
103. Graham
104. Fletcher
105. Howard
106. Gibson
107. Andrews
108. Walsh
109. Elliott
110. Reynolds
111. Saunders
112. Ford
113. Stewart
114. Payne
115. Fox
116. Pearce
117. Day
118. Brooks
119. Lawrence
120. West
121. Kaur
122. Cole
123. Atkinson
124. Bradley
125. Gill
126. Spencer
127. Ball
128. Dawson
129. Burton
130. Watts
131. Rose
132. Booth
133. Perry
134. Wells
135. Armstrong
136. O'Brien
137. Francis
138. Rees
139. Grant
140. Hart
141. Hudson
142. Hayes
143. Newman
144. Ryan
145. Webster
146. Barrett
147. Gregory
148. Hunter
149. Marsh
150. Lowe 39,320
151. Carr
152. Riley
153. Page
154. Shah
155. Woods
156. Dunn
157. Stone
158. Berry
159. Parsons
160. Hawkins
161. Harding
162. Holland
163. Porter
164. Newton
165. Oliver
166. Reed
167. Bird
168. Reid
169. Williamson
170. Gardner
171. Dean
172. Lane
173. Bates
174. Kennedy
175. Robertson
176. Cooke
177. Parry
178. Burgess
179. Walton
180. Bishop
181. Henderson
182. Nicholson
183. Burns
184. Shepherd
185. Nicholls
186. Cross
187. Warren
188. Freeman
189. Long
190. Sutton
191. Yates
192. Ross
193. Robson
194. Hodgson
195. Curtis
196. Hamilton
197. Hopkins
198. Harper
199. Watkins
200. Coleman 32,169
201. Chambers
202. Moss
203. McDonald
204. Byrne
205. Hardy
206. Wheeler
207. Sharp
208. Osborne
209. Potter
210. Jordan
211. Griffin
212. George
213. McCarthy
214. O'Neill
215. Akhtar
216. Hutchinson
217. Rowe
218. Pritchard
219. O'Connor
220. Gordon
221. Johnston
222. Wallace
223. May
224. Willis
225. Miles
226. Read
227. Stephenson
228. Hammond
229. Gilbert
230. Arnold
231. Stevenson
232. Walters
233. Higgins
234. Doyle
235. Hewitt
236. Buckley
237. Slater
238. Barber
239. Burke
240. Austin
241. Nelson
242. Mann
243. Frost
244. Whitehead
245. Lambert
246. Stephens
247. Blake
248. Goodwin
249. Woodward
250. Barton 27,290

Source

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  • [1] Collected by Nigel Callaghan of Technoleg Taliesin Cyf., based on the U.K. Office of National Statistics. Accessed on 8 November 2011.