Farrow

Farrow is the 3,499th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,941 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,941
Rank: 3,499th
How common: 1 in 30,100
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Hypercorrected form of Farrar, where the original ending -ar was regarded as an error and consequently changed to -ow.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.1%
Black, not Hispanic 26.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Farrow

Mia Farrow (born 1945)American actress
John Farrow (1904–1963)Film director, screenwriter and producer
Ronan Farrow (born 1987)American journalist
Tisa Farrow (1951–2024)American actress

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

Surnames like Farrow

Try it on yourself

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.