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The FAUNCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,308 19196 0 5
United States (1880 census) 700 7355 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +608 -11841 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 50 25556 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FAUNCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 118 11544 0.001 10
Florida 115 14014 0.001 7
Michigan 113 10208 0.001 11
New Jersey 78 11562 0.001 9
California 75 27221 0.000 2
Top States for FAUNCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 67 2824 0.005 53
Wyoming 10 6758 0.002 20
Maryland 73 7146 0.001 14
Kansas 32 9228 0.001 12
Vermont 7 9750 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of FAUNCE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FAUNCE surname.

Ethnic distribution of FAUNCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 17 1.3
Mixed Race 13 0.99
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.84
White (Caucasian) 1,263 96.56
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

FAUNCE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FAUNCE in historical publications

FAUNCE. Perhaps from A-Norm. faun, a flood-gate or water-gate.

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 FAUNCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAUNCE.

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 FAUNCE

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