# Furse (surname)

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

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 444 |
| US rank (2010) | 47,706 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 695,373 people |
| Change since 2000 | -14.0% (516 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Furze |

## Etymology

From Middle English Furse, topographic surname for someone who lived in a piece of land abundant with gorse, from Old English fyrs (“gorse”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Furse 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) | 75% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 19% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6% |

## Where

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

## People named Furse

- Elizabeth Furse, American politician (1936-2021)
- Roger Furse, British art and costume designer (1903-1972)

## Similar surnames

Frese, Frase, Farris, Ferris, Frias, Farias, Frick, Fries, Freese, Faris, Fraga, Fricke.

## 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.