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    The surname Fuhr

    A surname, carried by 1,581 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F600

    Fuhr: #17,726 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fuhr #17,726, 1,581 people Fuhr: #17,726 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fuhr #17,726, 1,581 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fuhr is more common than 89.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,581 people named Fuhr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,579.

    #17,726
    rank among US surnames
    1,581
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,688)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,717Brodersen1,583195,038
    #17,720Dopp1,582195,162
    #17,726Fader1,581195,285
    #17,734Dorsch1,580195,409

    Who is named Fuhr

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

    95% of people named Fuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fuhr

    Fuhr has the Soundex code F600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fuhr?
    1,581 people in the United States had the surname Fuhr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. It ranked 17,726th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fuhr?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Fuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Fuhr getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,579 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,581 in 2010, up 0.1%.