Farkas Family History
Farkas Name Meaning
Hungarian: from the old secular personal name (later also
ecclesiastical name) Farkas.Hungarian: nickname from
farkas ‘wolf’.Slovenian, Czech, and Slovak
(Farkaš): nickname from Old Slavic farkaš ‘wolf’,
a word of Hungarian origin.Jewish (from Hungary):
translation of the Yiddish personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’,
or else an ornamental adoption of the Hungarian word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Farkas Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farkas families
 60 - 117  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Farkas families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Farkas Family Origin
Farkas Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Farkas
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Farkas Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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