The Farner Last Name

Official name counts are where our Farner file begins. 2,667 Americans were listed as Farner in the 2010 census. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country. French birth records list 247 children named Farner between 1891 and 2000.

Surname origin

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Farner, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Farner is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Fornier.

Farner coat of arms

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Farner, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Get the complete Farner report, with a museum-style coat of arms.