Farish
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɛɹɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Farish is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cumb and Dumfriess. see Fairlamb .
- USUnited States1 in 255K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
1,306 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Cumb and Dumfriess. see Fairlamb .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farish counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,306 | 1 in 255K | 1.3K | Farish | 21 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Farish | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | — | Farish | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Farish | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | — | — | — | Farish | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Farish | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | — | — | Farish | 5 |
1,306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Farishb. 1759GBBritish chemist
- William G. Farishb. 1847USAmerican politician
- Hazlewood Power Farishb. 1880USMississippi politician
- William Stamps Farish IIb. 1881USAmerican businessman (1881-1942)
- Stephen Power Farishb. 1891Wealthy Texan
- Donald J. Farishb. 1942USCanadian academic (1942-2018)
- Catherine Farishb. 1951GBCanadian artist (born 1951)
- Helen Farishb. 1962GBBritish poet
- Stephen Farishb. 1970GBinternational bowls player
- Ryan FarishUSAmerican composer and musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #22,906 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 57 | #4,379 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Farish mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cumb and Dumfriess. see Fairlamb . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Farish?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛɹɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Farish have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Farish, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farish.
- Where is Farish most common?
- Farish is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 255 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Farish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,306 people named Farish in 2010, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farishThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Farish”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.