How common is the surname Fuerst?

2,058 people in the United States had the surname Fuerst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,022 Americans. It ranked 14,495th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fuerst?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fuerst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fuerst getting more or less common?

More common. 2,052 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,058 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Fuerst

A surname, carried by 2,058 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fuerst is more common than 91.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,058 people named Fuerst in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,022 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,052.

#14,495

rank among US surnames

2,058

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #13,573)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,489	Freels	2,060	149,876
#14,492	Stiefel	2,059	149,949
#14,495	Cazarez	2,058	150,022

Who is named Fuerst

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Fuerst identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fuerst

Fuerst has the Soundex code F623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F623.

Questions

How common is the surname Fuerst?: 2,058 people in the United States had the surname Fuerst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,022 Americans. It ranked 14,495th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fuerst?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fuerst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Fuerst getting more or less common?: More common. 2,052 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,058 in 2010, up 0.3%.