Farrar

At the 2020 census, 13,925 Americans bore the surname Farrar — 2,524th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,925
Rank: 2,524th
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

English occupational surname for a blacksmith or an ironworker, from Old French ferrier (“smith”). Compare Farrow, Ferrier.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Farrar

Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967)American soprano opera singer and film actress
Tyler Farrar (born 1984)American road bicycle racer
Frederic Farrar (1831–1903)British clergyman and author
David Farrar (1908–1995)British actor
Frank Farrar (1929–2021)American politician

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

Surnames like Farrar

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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.