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    The surname Fairhurst

    An English place surname, carried by 874 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F662

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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). Fairhurst is more common than 83% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a lost place in Lancashire, from Old English fæġer (“fair, beautiful”) + hyrst (“wooded hill”).

    Fairhurst 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 874 people named Fairhurst in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 353,256 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 832.

    #27,556
    rank among US surnames
    874
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #27,313)

    Who is named Fairhurst

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

    88% of people named Fairhurst identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fairhurst come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost place in Lancashire, from Old English fæġer (“fair, beautiful”) + hyrst (“wooded hill”).
    How common is the surname Fairhurst?
    874 people in the United States had the surname Fairhurst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 353,256 Americans. It ranked 27,556th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fairhurst?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Fairhurst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Fairhurst?
    Fairhurst is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Fairhurst getting more or less common?
    More common. 832 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 874 in 2010, up 5.0%.