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The FARNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 160 103706 0 1
United States (1880 census) 42 53906 0 1
Change since 1880 +118 -49800 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FARNESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 25 29702 0.001 5
Wisconsin 24 33927 0.000 4
California 16 121549 0.000 0
Washington 14 45291 0.000 2
Oregon 13 29682 0.000 4
Top States for FARNESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 4 23308 0.001 5
Minnesota 25 29702 0.001 5
Wisconsin 24 33927 0.000 4
Oregon 13 29682 0.000 4
Alabama 11 20672 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of FARNESS

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

Ethnic distribution of FARNESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 134 83.75
Black/African American 17 10.63
White (Hispanic) 8 5
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of FARNESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to FARNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARNESS.

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 FARNESS

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