Farkas

Farkas is the 5,221st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,463 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,463
Rank: 5,221st
How common: 1 in 46,200
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Hungarian

Borrowed from Hungarian Farkas.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Farkas

Bertalan Farkas (born 1949)Hungarian cosmonaut
János Farkas (1942–1989)Hungarian footballer
Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000)Hungarian musician
Edith Elizabeth Farkas (1921–1993)Antarctic researcher & meteorologist
Ágnes Farkas (born 1973)Hungarian handball player
Péter Farkas (born 1968)Olympic wrestler
Gizella Farkas (1925–1996)Hungarian table tennis player
Patrick Farkas (born 1992)Austrian association football player

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

Surnames like Farkas

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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.