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The MCFARLANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,160 3995 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 69 40356 0 1
Change since 1880 +8091 +36361 +N/A +29
Other Countries
Australia 3,330 451 0.02 204
United Kingdom 8,850 679 0.019 193
Top States for MCFARLANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,143 1571 0.006 60
Florida 1,033 1955 0.006 65
California 719 4065 0.002 21
Washington 357 2025 0.006 61
Michigan 345 3419 0.003 35
Top States for MCFARLANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 49 2393 0.006 65
Florida 1,033 1955 0.006 65
Wisconsin 345 1983 0.006 64
Wyoming 30 2121 0.006 61
Washington 357 2025 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of MCFARLANE

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 MCFARLANE 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 MCFARLANE 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 MCFARLANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 297 3.64
Mixed Race 189 2.32
Asian/Pacific 33 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.39
White (Caucasian) 4,956 60.74
Black/African American 2,653 32.51

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

Meaning of MCFARLANE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MCFARLANE.

Similar names to MCFARLANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCFARLANE.

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 MCFARLANE

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