The FARLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	37,116	849	0.014	138
United States (1880 census)	10,938	543	0.022	219
Change since 1880	+26178	-306	-0.008	-81
Other Countries
Australia	1,671	975	0.01	102
United Kingdom	5,377	1163	0.012	117

Top States for FARLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,548	1326	0.008	75
Ohio	2,396	520	0.021	211
New York	2,093	846	0.011	110
Texas	1,965	1313	0.009	94
Florida	1,716	1245	0.011	107
Top States for FARLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,569	122	0.087	868
Maine	419	620	0.033	329
Alabama	1,237	634	0.028	278
Kentucky	1,021	614	0.025	253
Tennessee	1,401	651	0.025	246

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

Classification and Origin of FARLEY

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 FARLEY 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 FARLEY 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 FARLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	564	1.52
Mixed Race	516	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	278	0.75
Asian/Pacific	160	0.43
White (Caucasian)	31,764	85.58
Black/African American	3,838	10.34

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

Similar names to FARLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARLEY.

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.