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The FURNISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,214 20359 0 4
United States (1880 census) 217 18163 0 4
Change since 1880 +997 -2196 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 281 5518 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,930 3062 0.004 42
Top States for FURNISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 145 8092 0.001 13
Idaho 97 1636 0.007 75
California 90 22359 0.000 3
Florida 73 19915 0.000 5
Indiana 71 8901 0.001 12
Top States for FURNISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 97 1636 0.007 75
Utah 66 3600 0.003 30
Montana 16 7732 0.002 18
Ohio 145 8092 0.001 13
Mississippi 36 5944 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of FURNISS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 53 4.37
White (Hispanic) 18 1.48
Asian/Pacific 8 0.66
White (Caucasian) 1,126 92.75
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FURNISS 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 FURNISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FURNISS.

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 FURNISS

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