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    The surname Fahs

    A surname, carried by 623 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fahs is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    Various origins: * A variant of German Faas. * Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فحص (faḥṣ).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 623 people named Fahs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 588.

    #35,993
    rank among US surnames
    623
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #36,045)

    Who is named Fahs

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Fahs identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as two or more races and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Fahs

    Fahs has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fahs come from?
    Various origins: * A variant of German Faas. * Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فحص (faḥṣ).
    How common is the surname Fahs?
    623 people in the United States had the surname Fahs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. It ranked 35,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fahs?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Fahs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Fahs getting more or less common?
    More common. 588 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 623 in 2010, up 6.0%.