Fairhurst is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 9 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Fairhurst
No. of characters: 9
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Fairhurst

How popular is Fairhurst?

Fairhurst is common in United States.

Fairhurst is ranked 54942 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Fairhurst bearers increased by 5.048077 per cent in 2010 US census to 874 since 2000, the surname slipped by 243 spots and ranked at 27556. The last name was found in around 3 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 88.22 89.66
Hispanic or Latino 5.15 3.73
Others 3.09 2.52
Black 2.86 3.25
Fairhurst is quite popular family name mostly used in England while Jersey is ahead in terms of density. Around 8540 people have been found who wears Fairhurst as their family name. Fairhurst is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
4,554 Guatemala3
52,939 United Arab Emirates2
723,167 Indonesia2
91,784 Netherlands2
1,118 Isle of Man2
34,681 Norway2
1,254 Gibraltar1
8,859 Iraq1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
40,340 Malaysia1
897,276 Russia1
31,584 Peru1
56,169 Mexico1
38,830 Morocco1
2,374 Bermuda1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
29,774 Venezuela1
16,640 Hong Kong1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
49,869 Spain38
37,591 Belgium37
11,685 Singapore24
1,163 Jersey17
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
17,456 Switzerland63
133,875 France61
Countries with hundreds of Fairhurst:
8,609 South Africa749
7,293 Australia394
10,034 Canada394
28,238 Germany370
3,482 New Zealand220
2,197 Wales181
3,725 Scotland164
33,601 Argentina149
Countries with thousands of Fairhurst:
1,769 England4,490
26,280 United States1,164
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

William Fairhurst was 20 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on April 17, 1849. He lived in Ireland where he worked as workman and took Camillus from Liverpool. Of unknown age William Fairhurst, are others that migrated to US.

Fairhurst Namesakes

  • Angus Fairhurst, Artist
  • Gail Theus Fairhurst, Author
  • Niel Fairhurst Meadowcroft, Author
  • Waide Fairhurst, Soccer player

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