Furman

At the 2020 census, 8,778 Americans bore the surname Furman — 3,926th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,778
Rank: 3,926th
How common: 1 in 34,100
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Variant of Firmin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Furman

Dean Furman (born 1988)South African association football player
Ezra Furman (born 1986)American musician
Brad Furman (born 2000)American film director
Dominik Furman (born 1992)Polish association football player
Semyon Furman (1920–1978)Soviet chess player

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

Surnames like Furman

Also a first name

Furman has been given to 2,758 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

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.