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The FAIRFIELD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,587 11232 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 1,177 4756 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +1410 -6476 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 69 19552 0 4
United Kingdom 759 6513 0.002 17
Top States for FAIRFIELD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 276 9230 0.001 8
Illinois 242 5204 0.002 19
Michigan 210 5575 0.002 21
Indiana 192 3895 0.003 32
Florida 150 11616 0.001 9
Top States for FAIRFIELD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 109 2002 0.009 85
Wyoming 19 3388 0.004 38
Indiana 192 3895 0.003 32
New Hampshire 30 5186 0.002 24
Idaho 31 5649 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of FAIRFIELD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 72 2.78
Black/African American 38 1.47
Mixed Race 30 1.16
Asian/Pacific 19 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.43
White (Caucasian) 2,417 93.43

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

Meaning of FAIRFIELD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FAIRFIELD.

Similar names to FAIRFIELD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIRFIELD.

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 FAIRFIELD

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