How common is the surname Farkas?

6,714 people in the United States had the surname Farkas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,985 Americans. It ranked 5,204th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Farkas?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Farkas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Farkas?

Edith Elizabeth Farkas, Antarctic researcher & meteorologist, followed by Patrick Farkas.

Where is the surname Farkas most common?

Wikidata records people named Farkas in Austria, Hungary and the United States.

Is the surname Farkas getting more or less common?

More common. 6,613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,714 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Farkas

A Hungarian surname, carried by 6,714 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F622

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Farkas is more common than 96.8% of them.

Origin

Hungarian origin

Borrowed from Hungarian Farkas.

One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,714 people named Farkas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,985 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,613.

#5,204

rank among US surnames

6,714

people in 2010

2.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,874)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,195	Bremer	6,733	45,856
#5,196	Rountree	6,726	45,903
#5,197	Roybal	6,725	45,910
#5,198	Zachary	6,724	45,917
#5,199	Somerville	6,721	45,937
#5,201	Orton	6,720	45,944
#5,202	Fife	6,719	45,951

Who is named Farkas

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

95% of people named Farkas identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Farkass

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Edith Elizabeth Farkas
Antarctic researcher & meteorologist, 1921–1993
Patrick Farkas
Austrian association football player, born 1992
Karl Farkas
Austrian actor and writer (1893–1971)
David Farkas
American actor, born 1975

Notable Farkass come mostly from Austria (2), Hungary (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Farkas

Frakes

Farkas has the Soundex code F622, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F622.

Other Hungarian surnames

All 46 Hungarian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Farkas come from?: Borrowed from Hungarian Farkas.
How common is the surname Farkas?: 6,714 people in the United States had the surname Farkas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,985 Americans. It ranked 5,204th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Farkas?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Farkas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Farkas?: Edith Elizabeth Farkas, Antarctic researcher & meteorologist, followed by Patrick Farkas.
Where is the surname Farkas most common?: Wikidata records people named Farkas in Austria, Hungary and the United States.
Is the surname Farkas getting more or less common?: More common. 6,613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,714 in 2010, up 1.5%.