# Firth (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/firth/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,181 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,136 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 97,059 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.8% (3,124 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and Scottish surname, from Old English fyrhþe (“forest”). * As a Scottish surname, from Firth in Orkney, itself from Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth”). * As a Welsh surname, from ffrith, itself borrowed from the first sense.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Firth in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Firth in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Firth

- Vic Firth, American musician (1930–2015)
- Jonathan Firth, British actor
- David Firth, British animator

## Similar surnames

Frith, Forth, Fruth, Fiorito, Ford, Forte, Freed, Fort, Fried, Friday, Forde, Frady.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.