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The FAIRWEATHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,714 15652 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 205 18975 0 4
Change since 1880 +1509 +3323 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 696 2320 0.004 43
United Kingdom 2,624 2354 0.006 57
Top States for FAIRWEATHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 215 9006 0.001 11
Florida 187 9958 0.001 12
California 163 15197 0.000 5
Massachusetts 146 5696 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 90 16132 0.001 7
Top States for FAIRWEATHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 25 5579 0.003 32
New Hampshire 35 4745 0.003 28
Massachusetts 146 5696 0.002 23
Maine 25 6336 0.002 20
Rhode Island 16 9063 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of FAIRWEATHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 358 20.89
Mixed Race 57 3.33
White (Hispanic) 40 2.33
White (Caucasian) 1,249 72.87
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FAIRWEATHER in historical publications

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

Similar names to FAIRWEATHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAIRWEATHER.

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 FAIRWEATHER

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