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The FARQUHAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,664 10956 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 464 10280 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2200 -676 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 842 1941 0.005 52
United Kingdom 2,998 2064 0.007 65
Top States for FARQUHAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 381 5093 0.002 18
California 277 8962 0.001 8
Michigan 174 6585 0.002 18
Florida 154 11052 0.001 10
New York 130 13632 0.001 7
Top States for FARQUHAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 40 4169 0.003 31
Vermont 14 5736 0.002 23
Washington DC 12 4301 0.002 21
Colorado 89 5791 0.002 21
Connecticut 70 6096 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of FARQUHAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FARQUHAR 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 FARQUHAR 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 FARQUHAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 80 3
White (Hispanic) 52 1.95
Mixed Race 29 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.68
Asian/Pacific 17 0.64
White (Caucasian) 2,468 92.64

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

Meaning of FARQUHAR in historical publications

FARQUHAR. A common Scottish surname — the same as the Irish Ferchard, an ancient personal name in both countries. The London Farquhars spring from Aberdeenshire.

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


(origin: Gaelic.) From Fear, a man, and còir, just, honest, good, or car, friendly; Fearciar, from Fear and ciar, dark-gray--a dark-gray man.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to FARQUHAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARQUHAR.

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 FARQUHAR

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