How common is the surname Faller?

3,097 people in the United States had the surname Faller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,692 Americans. It ranked 10,402nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Faller?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Faller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Faller getting more or less common?

More common. 2,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,097 in 2010, up 8.3%.

The surname Faller

A surname, carried by 3,097 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Faller is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,097 people named Faller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,692 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,860.

#10,402

rank among US surnames

3,097

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+8.3%

change since 2000 (was #10,323)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,395	Felty	3,100	99,595
#10,396	Vasques	3,099	99,627
#10,402	Faller	3,097	99,692
#10,405	Lipp	3,096	99,724
#10,408	Birdsall	3,095	99,756
#10,410	Albaugh	3,094	99,788
#10,411	Collings	3,093	99,821

Who is named Faller

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

89% of people named Faller identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Faller

Faller has the Soundex code F460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F460.

Questions

How common is the surname Faller?: 3,097 people in the United States had the surname Faller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,692 Americans. It ranked 10,402nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Faller?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Faller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Faller getting more or less common?: More common. 2,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,097 in 2010, up 8.3%.