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The FURNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,712 15670 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 462 10304 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1250 -5366 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 592 2738 0.004 36
United Kingdom 2,928 2112 0.006 64
Top States for FURNESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 157 14413 0.001 8
California 124 22358 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 113 15453 0.001 9
Michigan 111 13538 0.001 11
Massachusetts 104 9084 0.002 16
Top States for FURNESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 35 4538 0.005 46
Utah 67 4593 0.003 30
Delaware 18 8738 0.002 23
Idaho 24 8894 0.002 19
North Dakota 11 10853 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of FURNESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 44 2.57
Mixed Race 31 1.81
White (Hispanic) 21 1.23
White (Caucasian) 1,602 93.57
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FURNESS in historical publications

FURNESS. FURNISS. Furness, co. Lancaster ; Init see Furnace.

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 FURNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FURNESS.

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 FURNESS

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