McFarland

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məkˈfɑɹɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

McFarland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.5K
  • CACanada≈1 in 10K

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)

≈220,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
448 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

China, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

McFarlandLatin(measured from records)
แมคฟารแลนดThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

McFarland 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.

Where McFarland is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈220,000 est.≈1 in 6.2K—McFarland9
US United States#53541,3001 in 8.1K41KMcFarland448
ID Indonesia—≈8,000 est.≈1 in 34K—McFarland11
GB United Kingdom—≈6,900 est.≈1 in 9.5K—McFarland157
IT Italy—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 16K—McFarland15
CA Canada—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 10K—McFarland149
NZ New Zealand#839≈610 est.≈1 in 8.1K—McFarland48

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. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

McFarland is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Mc-Farland

  • Polish surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Макфарлэнд, Макфарленд, Макфарланд

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Μακφαρλαντ

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

McFarland is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, a different form of McFarlane

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Chappie McFarland, b. 1875Ernest McFarland, b. 1894George McFarland, b. 1928Gary McFarland, b. 1933Bob McFarland, b. 1941Roy McFarland, b. 1948K. T. McFarland, b. 1951Mike McFarland, b. 1970Joey McFarland, b. 1972Hayley McFarland, b. 1991

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)

FormalDear Mcfarland,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting McFarland
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201041K#835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200040K#782
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202039K#858
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 McFarland mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce McFarland?
A machine transcription gives /məkˈfɑɹɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does McFarland have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 224 thousand people named McFarland in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McFarland.
How common is the name McFarland?
In the United States, the national register counted 41,300 people named McFarland in 2010, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
How common is McFarland compared with other names?
In the United States, McFarland is the 535th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “McFarland” — the 535th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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