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    The surname Fairclough

    An English place surname, carried by 1,057 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F624

    Fairclough: #23,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fairclough #23,881, 1,057 people Fairclough: #23,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Fairclough #23,881, 1,057 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fairclough is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Middle English fayr (“fair, beautiful”) + clough (“narrow valley, ravine”).

    Fairclough is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,057 people named Fairclough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 803.

    #23,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,057
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.6%
    change since 2000 (was #28,088)

    Who is named Fairclough

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

    61% of people named Fairclough identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 32%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    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

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Fairclough

    Fairclough has the Soundex code F624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F624.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Fairclough come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Middle English fayr (“fair, beautiful”) + clough (“narrow valley, ravine”).
    How common is the surname Fairclough?
    1,057 people in the United States had the surname Fairclough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. It ranked 23,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fairclough?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Fairclough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Fairclough?
    Fairclough is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Fairclough getting more or less common?
    More common. 803 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,057 in 2010, up 32%.
    What are other spellings of Fairclough?
    Faircloth.