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The FURNACE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 317 59611 0 1
United States (1880 census) 214 18337 0 4
Change since 1880 +103 -41274 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 8 106447 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FURNACE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 86 18285 0.000 4
New York 44 42894 0.000 2
California 33 66608 0.000 1
Mississippi 29 7806 0.001 10
Missouri 23 26848 0.000 4
Top States for FURNACE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 29 7806 0.001 10
Alaska 4 26579 0.001 6
South Carolina 18 16862 0.000 4
Oklahoma 15 20197 0.000 4
Texas 86 18285 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of FURNACE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FURNACE surname.

Ethnic distribution of FURNACE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 167 52.68
White (Caucasian) 138 43.53
White (Hispanic) 10 3.15
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

FURNACE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FURNACE in historical publications

FURNACE. Probably from Furness, CO. Lancaster, celebrated for its fine monastery ; perhaps, hovever, from residence near some great iron-furnace, before tlio existing method of smelting that metal was introduced.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FURNACE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FURNACE.

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 FURNACE

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