Most widespread surnames in the United Kingdom

This ranking lists the thousand most widespread surnames in the United Kingdom, ordered by the number of places where they are found. It complements the ranking by families: a name can be very common in one region and absent elsewhere, while here the names spread across the whole country come first.

Smith leads with 279,153 places, ahead of Jones (193,960) and Brown (149,266).

On this page: ranks 301 to 400, from Gibbs (11,896 places) to Sheppard (9,645 places).

Rankings

• Ranking by number of families
• Ranking by number of places
• Longest surnames