Farr

At the 2020 census, 19,233 Americans bore the surname Farr — 1,829th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,500.

By the numbers

People: 19,233
Rank: 1,829th
How common: 1 in 15,500
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

English surname, from Old English fearr (“bull”). As a German surname, of the same meaning and source (Farre).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.7%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Farr

Diane Farr (born 1969)American actress
Jamie Farr (born 1934)actor
Felicia Farr (born 1932)actress
Sam Farr (born 1941)American politician
William Farr (1807–1883)British statistician and epidemiologist

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

Surnames like Farr

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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.