McFarland

39,411 people in the United States were counted with the surname McFarland in the 2020 census, making it the 858th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,584.

By the numbers

People: 39,411
Rank: 858th
How common: 1 in 7,584
Per 100,000: 13.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Variant of McFarlane.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.8%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McFarland

Hayley McFarland (born 1991)American actress
George McFarland (1928–1993)American child actor
Roy McFarland (born 1948)English football player and manager
Ernest McFarland (1894–1984)American politician and jurist from Arizona

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

Surnames like McFarland

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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.