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The FAWCETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,149 5218 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,401 4068 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +4748 -1150 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,212 1364 0.007 74
United Kingdom 7,087 881 0.015 154
Top States for FAWCETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 577 4707 0.002 17
Ohio 434 3046 0.004 38
Texas 408 4853 0.002 20
Florida 355 5268 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 346 4142 0.003 28
Top States for FAWCETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 56 1339 0.009 89
Montana 72 1514 0.008 80
Utah 171 1662 0.008 77
South Dakota 56 1869 0.007 74
Delaware 47 2779 0.006 60

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

Classification and Origin of FAWCETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 105 1.71
Native American/Alaskan 80 1.3
Black/African American 74 1.2
Mixed Race 63 1.02
Asian/Pacific 46 0.75
White (Caucasian) 5,781 94.02

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

Meaning of FAWCETT in historical publications

FAWCETT. Probably from Forcett, a township in the wapentake of Giilingwest, N. E. of Yorkshire. Forsyth and Faussett seem to be mere varieties of the same name.

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 FAWCETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAWCETT.

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 FAWCETT

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