The FAUNTLEROY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,349	18781	0	5
United States (1880 census)	312	13856	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1037	-4925	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	38	32032	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FAUNTLEROY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	348	2749	0.005	49
Maryland	184	3497	0.003	35
Louisiana	120	4762	0.003	27
New Jersey	107	9851	0.001	13
New York	89	22248	0.000	5
Top States for FAUNTLEROY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	348	2749	0.005	49
Washington DC	22	2781	0.004	38
Maryland	184	3497	0.003	35
Louisiana	120	4762	0.003	27
New Jersey	107	9851	0.001	13

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

Classification and Origin of FAUNTLEROY

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

Ethnic distribution of FAUNTLEROY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	279	20.68
Mixed Race	31	2.3
White (Hispanic)	20	1.48
Black/African American	1,011	74.94
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 FAUNTLEROY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of FAUNTLEROY in historical publications

FAUNTLEROY. FANTLEROY. As several anrugerous families — apparently unconnected with each otlier — have borne this name, it is presumed to be of considerable antiquity in England. It is perhaps a corruption of an ancient Fr. war-cry — DEFENDEZ LE ROI — ' Defend the King !' In course of time, the meaning of the name being forgotten, the De would be dropped, and the remaining syllables would easity glide into Fauntleroy. For examples of other surnames derived from war-cries, see Hay and Halliday.

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 FAUNTLEROY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAUNTLEROY.

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.