How common is the surname Furnish?

1,339 people in the United States had the surname Furnish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. It ranked 19,997th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Furnish?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Furnish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Furnish getting more or less common?

More common. 1,295 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,339 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Furnish

A surname, carried by 1,339 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Furnish is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

English surname, variant of Furness. Also a variant of Furneaux, Furnace.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,339 people named Furnish in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,295.

#19,997

rank among US surnames

1,339

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #19,355)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,992	Couillard	1,340	230,407
#19,997	Jeansonne	1,339	230,579

Who is named Furnish

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

95% of people named Furnish identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

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 Furnish

Furnish has the Soundex code F652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F652.

Questions

Where does the surname Furnish come from?: English surname, variant of Furness. Also a variant of Furneaux, Furnace.
How common is the surname Furnish?: 1,339 people in the United States had the surname Furnish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. It ranked 19,997th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Furnish?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Furnish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Furnish getting more or less common?: More common. 1,295 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,339 in 2010, up 3.4%.