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The FURMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,976 3636 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 1,935 3058 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +7041 -578 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 59 22236 0 4
United Kingdom 107 23275 0 2
Top States for FURMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,293 1368 0.007 68
Pennsylvania 806 1779 0.007 66
Florida 722 2766 0.005 45
California 647 4387 0.002 19
New Jersey 531 1666 0.006 63
Top States for FURMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 61 1733 0.010 100
South Dakota 58 1826 0.008 77
New York 1,293 1368 0.007 68
Pennsylvania 806 1779 0.007 66
Delaware 51 2664 0.007 65

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FURMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FURMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FURMAN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FURMAN by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FURMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FURMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FURMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FURMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 677 7.54
White (Hispanic) 176 1.96
Mixed Race 117 1.3
Asian/Pacific 44 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.31
White (Caucasian) 7,934 88.39

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FURMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FURMAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FURMAN.

Similar names to FURMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FURMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FURMAN

The following words are slight variants of FURMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.