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The FANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,016 23350 0 4
United States (1880 census) 239 16908 0 5
Change since 1880 +777 -6442 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 40 30701 0 2
United Kingdom 345 11568 0.001 8
Top States for FANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 234 8320 0.002 19
California 107 30727 0.000 3
New York 105 25664 0.001 6
Florida 95 25088 0.001 6
Michigan 53 33388 0.001 5
Top States for FANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 234 8320 0.002 19
Iowa 28 21094 0.001 10
Mississippi 24 10609 0.001 8
Missouri 45 20022 0.001 8
Wisconsin 34 33925 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of FANE

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 FANE 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 FANE 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 FANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 618 60.83
Black/African American 310 30.51
Asian/Pacific 40 3.94
White (Hispanic) 30 2.95
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FANE in historical publications

From Fane, a temple, a church. Gaelic, Fann, faint, weak, feeble.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


FANE. Welsh, ' slender,' — an ancient

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FANE.

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 FANE

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