McFarlane

9,680 people in the United States were counted with the surname McFarlane in the 2020 census, making it the 3,591st most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,680
Rank: 3,591st
How common: 1 in 30,900
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin (“son of Parthalán”), probably a Gaelicized form of the personal name Bartholomew.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.7%
Black, not Hispanic 37.6%
Hispanic or Latino 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McFarlane

Todd McFarlane (born 1961)Canadian artist and entrepreneur
Danny McFarlane (born 1972)Athletics (sport) competitor
Mike McFarlane (1960–2023)English sprinter
Robert McFarlane (1937–2022)American Marine Corps officer and National Security Advisor
Colin McFarlane (born 1961)British actor

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

Surnames like McFarlane

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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.