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The FAIRMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,314 12324 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 662 7693 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1652 -4631 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 182 8229 0.001 11
United Kingdom 886 5809 0.002 19
Top States for FAIRMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 394 3843 0.003 32
California 226 11258 0.001 7
Florida 146 12184 0.001 9
Michigan 146 8475 0.001 15
Illinois 142 9229 0.001 11
Top States for FAIRMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 394 3843 0.003 32
Mississippi 45 5548 0.002 16
Michigan 146 8475 0.001 15
Missouri 65 10456 0.001 12
Illinois 142 9229 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one 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!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

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 USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FAIRMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FAIRMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FAIRMAN in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FAIRMAN by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FAIRMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FAIRMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FAIRMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FAIRMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 359 15.51
White (Hispanic) 53 2.29
Mixed Race 24 1.04
Asian/Pacific 12 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.43
White (Caucasian) 1,856 80.21

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FAIRMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FAIRMAN in historical publications

FAIRMAN. . A huckster, or attender at fairs. 2. (A-Sax. faran, to go). A messenger. The H.E. present the variations Faremau, Feirman, Fayrman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FAIRMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIRMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FAIRMAN

The following words are slight variants of FAIRMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.