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    The surname Furse

    An English place surname, carried by 444 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Furse is more common than 70.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Furse is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 444 people named Furse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 695,373 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 516.

    #47,706
    rank among US surnames
    444
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -14%
    change since 2000 (was #40,019)

    Who is named Furse

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

    75% of people named Furse identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Furses

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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

    Notable Furses come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Furze

    Surnames that sound like Furse

    Furse has the Soundex code F620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F620.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Furse come from?
    From Middle English Furse, topographic surname for someone who lived in a piece of land abundant with gorse, from Old English fyrs (“gorse”).
    How common is the surname Furse?
    444 people in the United States had the surname Furse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 695,373 Americans. It ranked 47,706th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Furse?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Furse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Furse?
    Elizabeth Furse, American politician (1936-2021), followed by Roger Furse.
    Where is the surname Furse most common?
    Wikidata records people named Furse in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Furse?
    Furse is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Furse getting more or less common?
    Less common. 516 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 444 in 2010, down 14%.
    What are other spellings of Furse?
    Furze.