The FAIRCHILD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,700	2424	0.005	51
United States (1880 census)	3,457	1770	0.007	69
Change since 1880	+10243	-654	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	171	8681	0.001	10
United Kingdom	890	5785	0.002	19

Top States for FAIRCHILD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	1,056	1258	0.009	93
California	1,021	3040	0.003	30
Texas	1,002	2343	0.005	48
Michigan	729	1507	0.007	73
Florida	681	2995	0.004	43
Top States for FAIRCHILD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	213	770	0.016	165
Mississippi	396	1110	0.014	139
Kentucky	444	1287	0.011	110
Oklahoma	326	1457	0.009	94
Ohio	1,056	1258	0.009	93

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

Classification and Origin of FAIRCHILD

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 FAIRCHILD 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 FAIRCHILD 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 FAIRCHILD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	362	2.64
White (Hispanic)	241	1.76
Mixed Race	199	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	70	0.51
Asian/Pacific	67	0.49
White (Caucasian)	12,762	93.15

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

Similar names to FAIRCHILD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIRCHILD.

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.