The FARRELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	51,095	599	0.019	189
United States (1880 census)	16,036	353	0.032	321
Change since 1880	+35059	-246	-0.013	-132
Other Countries
Australia	5,146	271	0.031	315
United Kingdom	15,374	379	0.033	335

Top States for FARRELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	6,696	180	0.035	353
California	3,860	790	0.011	114
Pennsylvania	3,666	277	0.030	299
Florida	3,343	541	0.021	209
Massachusetts	2,922	225	0.046	460
Top States for FARRELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,922	225	0.046	460
Vermont	247	309	0.041	406
Rhode Island	416	232	0.040	397
Connecticut	1,339	185	0.039	393
Maine	488	466	0.038	383

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

Classification and Origin of FARRELL

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 FARRELL 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 FARRELL 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 FARRELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	833	1.63
Mixed Race	593	1.16
Asian/Pacific	255	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	245	0.48
White (Caucasian)	46,961	91.91
Black/African American	2,212	4.33

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

Similar names to FARRELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARRELL.

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.