Farber

Farber is the 5,287th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,364 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,364
Rank: 5,287th
How common: 1 in 47,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Anglicized form of Färber, meaning "a dyer" from German Farbe "colour".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Farber

Hans-Johann Färber (born 1947)West German rower
Sidney Farber (1903–1973)American physician

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

Surnames like Farber

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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.