Faber

At the 2020 census, 9,825 Americans bore the surname Faber — 3,545th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,825
Rank: 3,545th
How common: 1 in 30,400
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

From the French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker, " variant of Favre, both from Latin faber (“craftsman”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Faber described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Faber

Sandra Faber (born 1944)American astrophysicist
Peter Faber (1506–1546)Jesuit priest and evangelist
François Faber (1887–1915)Luxembourgian racing cyclist
Michel Faber (born 1960)Dutch writer
Emmanuel Faber (born 1964)French entrepreneur
Marc Faber (born 1946)Swiss businessman
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863)19th-century British hymn writer, Catholic priest, and theologian
Urijah Faber (born 1979)American mixed martial artist

People named Faber with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Faber

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.