Surname statistics for Furness

There are approximately 4,852 people named Furness in the UK. That makes it the 2,152nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 77 are named Furness.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)48522152N/A77
United Kingdom (1881 census)239218730.00880
Change since 1881+2460-2790-3
Other Countries
United States171215670N/A6
Australia5922738N/A36

Politics

People with the surname Furness are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Furness are:

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Furness
John Furness
Paul Furness
Michael Furness
Stephen Furness
Richard Furness
Mark Furness
Peter Furness
James Furness
Robert Furness
Ian Furness
Alan Furness
Brian Furness
Andrew Furness
William Furness
Christopher Furness
Clive Furness
Lee Furness
Roger Furness
Gary Furness

Top female forenames

Susan Furness
Wendy Furness
Sarah Furness
Karen Furness
Judith Furness
Linda Furness
Elizabeth Furness
Lisa Furness
Rachael Furness
Lesley Furness
Sandra Furness
Tracey Furness
Katherine Furness
Patricia Furness
Helen Furness
Rebecca Furness
Elaine Furness
Margaret Furness
Mary Furness
Claire Furness

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.