Farace is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Farace
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: The name comes from southern Italy (Campania, Calabria). It is very common in Sicily in the form Faraci. I do not know the meaning, but various authors think it comes from the Arabic. In this case, it could correspond either to Farah (= joy) or faraj (= relief, deliverance).

How popular is Farace?

Farace is common in United States.

Farace is ranked 116417 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Faraces plummeted by 3.403141 per cent to 738 since 2000 and slipped by 2173 spots and ranked at 31383. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.93 96.86
Hispanic or Latino 2.44 1.18
Others 0.68 1.57
Farace is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Argentina which may be its originating country too. Around 3468 people have been found who wears Farace as their family name. Farace is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
179,761 Australia6
65,594 Belgium2
6,353 Panama2
492,292 Ukraine1
16,640 Hong Kong1
172,258 Germany1
1,704,541 India1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
94,027 England32
81,586 Spain17
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
47,259 Canada66
133,875 France61
Countries with hundreds of Farace:
11,585 Italy929
40,920 Brazil270
Countries with thousands of Farace:
4,979 Argentina1,045
28,946 United States1,034

Immigrants to US

From Italy

Alfonso Farace worked as farmer and hailed from Minori, Italy. 10 years old embarked for New York from Unknown on Trojan Prince and arrived on September 6, 1898. Anna-Carmela Farace, aged 6, Annunziata Farace (19) Housewife, Farmer Antonina Farace, Country man Antonino Farace, Farmer Bonaventura Farace, 8 years old Camillo Farace, Laborer Cosimo Farace, Cristina Farace, aged 26, and 40 other Farace majority of whom were laborer and others worked as housewife and country man, peasant, shoemaker, barber, daughter migrated to US from Unknown, Gibraltar & Naples and Naples & Palermo.

Farace Namesakes

  • Tonie Farace, Film actress

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