The FARNUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,062	13513	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,167	4790	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+895	-8723	-0.001	-15
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	43	26577	0	1

Top States for FARNUM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	234	11122	0.001	7
Michigan	169	7409	0.002	17
New York	168	11494	0.001	9
Florida	145	12509	0.001	9
Maine	137	1721	0.011	107
Top States for FARNUM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	137	1721	0.011	107
Vermont	59	1845	0.010	97
New Hampshire	63	2912	0.005	51
Rhode Island	38	4235	0.004	36
Montana	27	5238	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of FARNUM

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FARNUM 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 FARNUM 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 FARNUM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	123	5.97
Mixed Race	46	2.23
White (Hispanic)	36	1.75
Asian/Pacific	9	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.39
White (Caucasian)	1,840	89.23

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

Similar names to FARNUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARNUM.

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.