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The FARAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,934 7792 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 37 57803 0 1
Change since 1880 +3897 +50011 +N/A +14
Other Countries
Australia 541 2983 0.003 33
United Kingdom 420 10054 0.001 9
Top States for FARAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 539 957 0.011 110
California 434 6305 0.001 13
Florida 403 4881 0.003 25
Michigan 283 4151 0.003 28
Ohio 263 5182 0.002 23
Top States for FARAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 539 957 0.011 110
Washington DC 17 3245 0.003 30
Washington 173 4210 0.003 29
Michigan 283 4151 0.003 28
Oregon 92 4656 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of FARAH

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Somalia

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of FARAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 925 23.51
Mixed Race 457 11.62
White (Hispanic) 222 5.64
Asian/Pacific 70 1.78
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.18
White (Caucasian) 2,253 57.27

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

Meaning of FARAH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FARAH.

Similar names to FARAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARAH.

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 FARAH

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