Farnam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. persischer Herkunft, der »ruhmreicher Name« bedeutet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɑɹnəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Farnam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 395K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 75K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 191K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom. persischer Herkunft, der »ruhmreicher Name« bedeutet.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farnam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Farnam | 2 |
| US United States | 843 | 1 in 395K | 974 | Farnam | 194 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | listed | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Farnam | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Farnam | 3 |
| PT Portugal | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Farnam | 1 |
| DK Denmark | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 4 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Farnam | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Rufus Farnamb. 1766USAmerican silversmith (1766–1863)
- Henry Farnamb. 1773USAmerican silversmith (1773–1852)
- George Bronson Farnamb. 1841USAmerican physician
- William Whitman Farnamb. 18441844-1929
- Charles Henry Farnamb. 1846USAmerican lawyer and genealogist (1846-1909)
- Henry Walcott Farnamb. 1853USAmerican economist (1853–1933)
- William Wolcott Farnamb. 18531853-1933
- Thomas Wells Farnamb. 1877USAmerican banker and Red Cross official 1877-1943
- Tracy Farnamb. 1879Doctor, heir
- C. Eugene Farnamb. 1916USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 974 | #26,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 915 | #25,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 843 | #28,333 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Farnam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɑɹnəm/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Farnam mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. persischer Herkunft, der »ruhmreicher Name« bedeutet.
- In which country does Farnam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Farnam in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farnam.
- How common is the name Farnam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 843 people named Farnam in 2010, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farnamThe 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, “Farnam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.