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The FARREL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 764 29210 0 3
United States (1880 census) 2,352 2583 0.005 47
Change since 1880 -1588 -26627 +N/A -44
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 128 21396 0 3
Top States for FARREL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 154 26211 0.000 5
Texas 73 30547 0.000 4
Florida 65 40960 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 52 45470 0.000 4
New York 46 65276 0.000 2
Top States for FARREL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 8 25184 0.001 9
New Hampshire 10 23981 0.001 8
Connecticut 25 32804 0.001 7
Idaho 8 29145 0.001 6
Washington 27 42265 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of FARREL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 631 82.59
Black/African American 77 10.08
White (Hispanic) 37 4.84
Mixed Race 12 1.57
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 FARREL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FARREL in historical publications

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

Similar names to FARREL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARREL.

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 FARREL

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