The MACFARLANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,437	6966	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	69	40384	0	1
Change since 1880	+4368	+33418	+N/A	+15
Other Countries
Australia	1,429	1144	0.009	87
United Kingdom	5,997	1045	0.013	131

Top States for MACFARLANE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	578	4633	0.002	17
Florida	339	5442	0.002	21
Massachusetts	296	2766	0.005	47
Utah	265	1054	0.012	119
New York	259	7010	0.001	14
Top States for MACFARLANE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	265	1054	0.012	119
Vermont	53	1883	0.009	87
Massachusetts	296	2766	0.005	47
Maine	53	3414	0.004	42
New Hampshire	47	3472	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of MACFARLANE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	75	1.69
Black/African American	72	1.62
Mixed Race	60	1.35
Asian/Pacific	21	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.38
White (Caucasian)	4,192	94.48

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

Similar names to MACFARLANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACFARLANE.

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.