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The FARNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,553 16906 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 371 12168 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1182 -4738 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 4 180912 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FARNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 238 8473 0.001 13
Illinois 175 7882 0.001 14
Kansas 116 2980 0.004 43
California 102 23475 0.000 3
Arizona 85 7043 0.002 17
Top States for FARNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 116 2980 0.004 43
Arizona 85 7043 0.002 17
Illinois 175 7882 0.001 14
Indiana 80 9348 0.001 13
New York 238 8473 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of FARNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of FARNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 19 1.22
Mixed Race 15 0.97
Black/African American 11 0.71
White (Caucasian) 1,494 96.2
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FARNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FARNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARNEY.

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 FARNEY

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