Given name & surname
Farmer
“one who works the earth”
Farmer is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who works the earth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who works the earth.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Farmer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 139
- 139 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 317 as a first name in 2020; 66,667 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Farmer’s family of names
Farmer has a related form in Farmar. Farmer has a related form in Farmir. Farmer has a related form in Farmor.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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