The FAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,865	4177	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	1,530	3778	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+6335	-399	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	22	48825	0	1
United Kingdom	31	27356	0	1

Top States for FAIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	937	2554	0.004	45
Georgia	771	1420	0.009	94
Tennessee	558	1582	0.010	98
California	511	5755	0.002	15
Florida	511	4125	0.003	32
Top States for FAIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	404	1475	0.010	100
Tennessee	558	1582	0.010	98
Georgia	771	1420	0.009	94
Virginia	456	2098	0.006	64
Alabama	273	2475	0.006	61

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FAIN

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 FAIN 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 FAIN 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 FAIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	974	12.38
Mixed Race	131	1.67
White (Hispanic)	126	1.6
Native American/Alaskan	64	0.81
Asian/Pacific	53	0.67
White (Caucasian)	6,517	82.86

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

Similar names to FAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIN.

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.