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The FARNHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,723 6616 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 2,522 2407 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +2201 -4209 -0.003 -32
Other Countries
Australia 395 4006 0.002 24
United Kingdom 847 6004 0.002 18
Top States for FARNHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 530 3570 0.003 28
California 465 5936 0.001 14
Massachusetts 308 2794 0.005 49
Florida 281 6812 0.002 18
Maine 277 905 0.022 217
Top States for FARNHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 249 315 0.041 409
Maine 277 905 0.022 217
New Hampshire 108 1796 0.009 87
Massachusetts 308 2794 0.005 49
Connecticut 148 3000 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of FARNHAM

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 FARNHAM 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 FARNHAM 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 FARNHAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 61 1.29
White (Hispanic) 56 1.19
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.76
Asian/Pacific 23 0.49
Black/African American 18 0.38
White (Caucasian) 4,529 95.89

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

Meaning of FARNHAM in historical publications

(origin: Local) From a town in Surrey, England, "so called from the Saxon Fearn, fern, and ham, a habitation or village--the village in the place overgrown with fern."

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


FARNHAM. Parishes, Src., In cos.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FARNHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARNHAM.

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 FARNHAM

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