Firth

Firth is the 10,525th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,907 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,907
Rank: 10,525th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, from Old English fyrhþe (“forest”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Firth described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Firth

Colin Firth (born 1960)English actor and producer
Peter Firth (born 1953)English actor
Raymond Firth (1901–2002)ethnologist from New Zealand
John Rupert Firth (1890–1960)English linguist
Jonathan Firth (born 1967)British actor
Vic Firth (1930–2015)American musician
Bethany Firth (born 1996)British swimmer
Malaika Firth (born 1994)model

People named Firth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Firth

Firestone

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.