Fanning

At the 2020 census, 10,318 Americans bore the surname Fanning — 3,389th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,318
Rank: 3,389th
How common: 1 in 29,000
Per 100,000: 3.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Fanning

Dakota Fanning (born 1994)American actress
Elle Fanning (born 1998)American actress
Shawn Fanning (born 1980)American businessman
Bernard Fanning (born 1969)Australian recording artist; musician and singer-songwriter
Teresa González de Fanning (1836–1918)Peruvian writer and journalist

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

Surnames like Fanning

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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.