Last Name FAIRBAIRN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Nickname: Fair child, a native of county York, where 'bairn' is found in several last names.
A handsome child.
The same as Fairchild - a fair, handsome bairn or child.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish

Rank 19,775 (2000 US census) 19,709 (1990 US census)
Count 1,260 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.21%, or 1187 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.75%, or 22 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.51%, or 19 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.35%, or 17 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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