What Is the Most Common MBTI Type?

Robin Nemesszeghy
Personality Solutions
3 min readOct 3, 2022

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The Most Common MBTI Types

The most common MBTI type is the ISFJ (13.8% of the population). This is also the most common type for women. These are the “warm, caring, practical, and helpful nurses and mom types” of the world.

The top 5 most common personality types ranked:

  1. ISFJ: 13.8%
  2. ESFJ: 12.3%
  3. ISTJ: 11.6%
  4. ISFP: 8.8%
  5. ESTJ: 8.7%

The Si + Fe types are the most common (this is what ISFJ and ESFJ are), followed by the Si + Te (ISTJ and ESTJ).

The Si dominant types are the most common in general — these are the most practical types and prefer to organize information and people → bring order, follow rules, uphold regulations, standards, and existing systems). It makes sense they are the most common in the world because they are “the worker bees” of the hive, and the worker bees are the most numerous within a hive. They keep things up and running smoothly; they maintain the “hive” of society.

Further description of Si types:

“SJ temperament personality types (also known as Protectors) are observant, stable and motivated to keep their lives and those of their loved ones secure. They are reliable

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Robin Nemesszeghy
Personality Solutions

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