Furr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME furre ‘a coat or garment made of or trimmed with fur’, for a wearer, maker, or seller; first attested Reginald Furre 1193 P (L)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Furr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 50K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
8,260 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ME furre ‘a coat or garment made of or trimmed with fur’, for a wearer, maker, or seller; first attested Reginald Furre 1193 P (L)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Furr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,260 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Furr | 357 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Furr | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Furr | 100 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Furr | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Furr | 26 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Furr | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Furr | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #226 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Furr | 1 |
8,260 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harry Furrb. 1887GBBritish association football player (1887-1971)
- Roy Furrb. 1907USAmerican businessman
- Grover Furrb. 1944USacademic
- Joel Furrb. 1967USAmerican usenet personality
- Nathan FurrUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1263-7709
- John FurrUSbasketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.3K | #4,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8K | #4,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,516 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Furr mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME furre ‘a coat or garment made of or trimmed with fur’, for a wearer, maker, or seller; first attested Reginald Furre 1193 P (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Furr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Furr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Furr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled furr.
- How common is the name Furr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,260 people named Furr in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Furr compared with other names?
- In Belize, Furr is the 226th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/furrThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Furr” — the 226th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.