Furman
Furman is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 496th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191873 births
- Best rank
- #496in 1900
- Since 1881
- 2,758people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,758 boys have been named Furman in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 73 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 73 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Furman | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 58 | |
| 1900s | 101 | |
| 1910s | 371 | |
| 1920s | 512 | |
| 1930s | 457 | |
| 1940s | 406 | |
| 1950s | 346 | |
| 1960s | 223 | |
| 1970s | 119 | |
| 1980s | 69 | |
| 1990s | 45 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Furman was the 756th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Furman
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Oranpeak 1922
- Clarancepeak 1926
- Dillardpeak 1921
- Alviepeak 1921
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Ennispeak 1922
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.