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The FEARN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,073 22384 0 4
United States (1880 census) 292 14591 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +781 -7793 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 198 7636 0.001 12
United Kingdom 3,509 1786 0.008 76
Top States for FEARN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 135 17623 0.000 4
Alabama 108 4539 0.002 24
Ohio 66 18997 0.001 6
Illinois 56 23012 0.000 5
Washington 56 12473 0.001 10
Top States for FEARN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 108 4539 0.002 24
Wyoming 7 9929 0.001 14
Delaware 10 12148 0.001 13
Idaho 13 12981 0.001 10
Washington 56 12473 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of FEARN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 850 79.22
Black/African American 182 16.96
Mixed Race 18 1.68
White (Hispanic) 13 1.21
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FEARN in historical publications

FEARN. A parish in Ross-shire, and another in Forfarshire.

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 FEARN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEARN.

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 FEARN

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