The FANNING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,836	3069	0.004	40
United States (1880 census)	3,592	1707	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+7244	-1362	-0.003	-32
Other Countries
Australia	755	2155	0.005	46
United Kingdom	1,195	4532	0.003	26

Top States for FANNING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	699	2732	0.004	37
California	697	4214	0.002	21
Texas	672	3380	0.003	32
Illinois	623	2061	0.005	50
Florida	519	3927	0.003	32
Top States for FANNING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	131	1175	0.012	125
South Carolina	469	1416	0.012	117
Wyoming	54	1067	0.011	109
South Dakota	79	1243	0.010	105
Oklahoma	348	1366	0.010	101

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

Classification and Origin of FANNING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	726	6.7
White (Hispanic)	153	1.41
Mixed Race	134	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	92	0.85
Asian/Pacific	36	0.33
White (Caucasian)	9,695	89.47

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

Similar names to FANNING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FANNING.

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.