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The FAULKNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 35,389 896 0.013 131
United States (1880 census) 6,152 992 0.012 123
Change since 1880 +29237 +96 +0.001 +8
Other Countries
Australia 3,050 508 0.019 187
United Kingdom 12,935 457 0.028 282
Top States for FAULKNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,554 1011 0.012 122
California 2,232 1476 0.007 66
North Carolina 2,025 569 0.025 252
Florida 1,964 1042 0.012 123
Tennessee 1,868 453 0.033 328
Top States for FAULKNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,537 378 0.038 380
Delaware 292 410 0.037 373
Arkansas 902 363 0.034 337
Tennessee 1,868 453 0.033 328
Alabama 1,413 512 0.032 318

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

Classification and Origin of FAULKNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 531 1.5
Mixed Race 510 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 184 0.52
Asian/Pacific 145 0.41
White (Caucasian) 28,870 81.58
Black/African American 5,146 14.54

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

Meaning of FAULKNER in historical publications

FAULKNER. See Falconer.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FAULKNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAULKNER.

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 FAULKNER

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