The FAIRCLOTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,665	3757	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	1,227	4593	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+7438	+836	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	32	36509	0	2
United Kingdom	388	10670	0.001	8

Top States for FAIRCLOTH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,397	490	0.030	298
Florida	1,342	1568	0.008	84
Georgia	1,196	936	0.015	146
Texas	450	4803	0.002	22
Alabama	408	1775	0.009	92
Top States for FAIRCLOTH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,397	490	0.030	298
Georgia	1,196	936	0.015	146
South Carolina	398	1680	0.010	99
Alabama	408	1775	0.009	92
Florida	1,342	1568	0.008	84

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

Classification and Origin of FAIRCLOTH

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 FAIRCLOTH 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 FAIRCLOTH 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 FAIRCLOTH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	379	4.37
Native American/Alaskan	129	1.49
Mixed Race	98	1.13
White (Hispanic)	98	1.13
Asian/Pacific	22	0.25
White (Caucasian)	7,939	91.62

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

Similar names to FAIRCLOTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIRCLOTH.

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.