Farmer

Farmer is the 490th most common surname in the United States, shared by 66,667 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,483.

By the numbers

People: 66,667
Rank: 490th
How common: 1 in 4,483
Per 100,000: 22.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Farmer

Mylène Farmer (born 1961)French singer and songwriter
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009)American writer
Frances Farmer (1913–1970)American actress
Art Farmer (1928–1999)American jazz trumpeter
Mimsy Farmer (born 1945)American actress
Bill Farmer (born 1952)American voice actor
Paul Farmer (1959–2022)American anthropologist, 1959-2022
Fannie Farmer (1857–1915)American chef

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

Surnames like Farmer

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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.