How common is the surname Fannon?

1,783 people in the United States had the surname Fannon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,161 Americans. It ranked 16,195th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fannon?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Fannon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fannon getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,783 in 2010, down 5.5%.

The surname Fannon

A surname, carried by 1,783 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F550

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fannon is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,783 people named Fannon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,161 Americans. That is down 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,887.

#16,195

rank among US surnames

1,783

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-5.5%

change since 2000 (was #14,491)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,188	Pidgeon	1,785	172,967
#16,191	Paolucci	1,784	173,064
#16,195	Pincus	1,783	173,161
#16,203	Hallum	1,782	173,258

Who is named Fannon

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

91% of people named Fannon identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

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 Fannon

Fannin

Fannon has the Soundex code F550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F550.

Questions

How common is the surname Fannon?: 1,783 people in the United States had the surname Fannon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,161 Americans. It ranked 16,195th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fannon?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Fannon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Fannon getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,783 in 2010, down 5.5%.