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The FARGO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,161 13005 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 766 6818 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +1395 -6187 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 6 133001 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FARGO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 291 9363 0.001 9
New York 201 9853 0.001 11
Michigan 140 9247 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 128 11927 0.001 10
Ohio 115 11718 0.001 10
Top States for FARGO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 86 5480 0.003 25
Oklahoma 80 5433 0.002 23
Alaska 13 7779 0.002 21
Vermont 11 7848 0.002 18
Montana 16 9528 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of FARGO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FARGO surname.

Ethnic distribution of FARGO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 43 1.99
Mixed Race 43 1.99
Native American/Alaskan 38 1.76
White (Hispanic) 22 1.02
Asian/Pacific 12 0.56
White (Caucasian) 2,003 92.69

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

FARGO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FARGO in historical publications

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

Similar names to FARGO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARGO.

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 FARGO

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