Farwood Surname

7,117,718th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Farwood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Farwood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:4,062,562101,150
Wales21:784,20816,349
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States301:1,673,95687,330

Farwood Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Farwood Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Farwood is found most in The United States. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Farwood? popularity and diffusion

The surname Farwood is the 7,117,718th most frequently held family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 86 percent of Farwood reside; 86 percent reside in North America and 86 percent reside in Anglo-North America.

The last name Farwood is most common in The United States, where it is carried by 6 people, or 1 in 60,409,822. In The United States it is most frequent in: California, where 67 percent reside, Georgia, where 17 percent reside and New Jersey, where 17 percent reside. Barring The United States it exists in one country. It is also found in India, where 14 percent reside.

Farwood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Farwood has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Farwood last name contracted 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Fairwood9338/
Forwood861,207/
Farbood8631/
Ferwood860/
Farbod771,206/
Farwad771/
Farboud7172/
Verwood715/
Vorwood711/
Farwoth711/
Farhbod711/
Farvoid710/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Farwood
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