The FAIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,658	1870	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	3,592	1706	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+14066	-164	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	212	7153	0.001	13
United Kingdom	1,222	4445	0.003	27

Top States for FAIR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,564	882	0.013	127
Ohio	1,194	1153	0.011	105
Texas	1,172	2114	0.006	56
California	1,138	2841	0.003	34
Florida	1,126	1888	0.007	70
Top States for FAIR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	591	779	0.021	208
Pennsylvania	1,564	882	0.013	127
Tennessee	723	1261	0.013	127
South Carolina	501	1370	0.012	125
Alabama	523	1431	0.012	118

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

Classification and Origin of FAIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	302	1.71
White (Hispanic)	235	1.33
Asian/Pacific	72	0.41
Native American/Alaskan	71	0.4
White (Caucasian)	11,981	67.85
Black/African American	4,995	28.29

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

Similar names to FAIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIR.

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.