The FARWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,890	10234	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	1,407	4047	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+1483	-6187	-0.002	-17
Other Countries
Australia	24	46055	0	1
United Kingdom	332	11888	0.001	7

Top States for FARWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	371	7478	0.001	11
Illinois	219	6026	0.002	18
New York	163	11900	0.001	9
Washington	158	4744	0.003	27
Florida	146	12438	0.001	9
Top States for FARWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	137	1735	0.011	107
New Hampshire	81	2361	0.007	66
Wyoming	27	2402	0.005	55
Vermont	26	3774	0.004	43
Nebraska	60	4243	0.004	35

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

Classification and Origin of FARWELL

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 FARWELL 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 FARWELL 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 FARWELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	105	3.63
White (Hispanic)	37	1.28
Mixed Race	32	1.11
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.76
Asian/Pacific	14	0.48
White (Caucasian)	2,680	92.73

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

Similar names to FARWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FARWELL.

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.