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The FUREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,938 10104 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 525 9286 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2413 -818 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 225 6761 0.001 14
United Kingdom 717 6797 0.002 16
Top States for FUREY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 396 4863 0.002 21
Massachusetts 338 2602 0.005 53
Pennsylvania 333 4551 0.003 27
New Jersey 295 3256 0.004 35
Florida 208 8986 0.001 13
Top States for FUREY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 338 2602 0.005 53
New Jersey 295 3256 0.004 35
Connecticut 115 3966 0.003 34
New Hampshire 35 4754 0.003 28
Pennsylvania 333 4551 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of FUREY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FUREY 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 FUREY 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 FUREY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 54 1.84
Black/African American 51 1.74
Asian/Pacific 17 0.58
Mixed Race 16 0.54
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.31
White (Caucasian) 2,791 95

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

Meaning of FUREY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FUREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FUREY.

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 FUREY

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