The FARRAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,451	2301	0.005	54
United States (1880 census)	3,881	1579	0.008	78
Change since 1880	+10570	-722	-0.003	-24
Other Countries
Australia	810	2004	0.005	50
United Kingdom	3,651	1713	0.008	79

Top States for FARRAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,226	1941	0.006	59
California	1,060	2920	0.003	31
Virginia	821	1093	0.012	116
North Carolina	751	1591	0.009	93
Tennessee	645	1357	0.011	113
Top States for FARRAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	456	510	0.036	358
Vermont	183	505	0.030	301
Virginia	821	1093	0.012	116
Tennessee	645	1357	0.011	113
Mississippi	318	1323	0.011	112

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

Classification and Origin of FARRAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	267	1.85
White (Hispanic)	234	1.62
Asian/Pacific	65	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	51	0.35
White (Caucasian)	11,840	81.93
Black/African American	1,996	13.81

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

Similar names to FARRAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARRAR.

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.