Fury is used as a family name or surname in Ireland. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Fury
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Ireland
Meaning:

Family name is the variant of Ferrand. "Imported at a very early period into the deanery of Craven, in Yorkshire, from Normandy, where it is still to be met with. From seems to be no ground for such distinction. William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle, Hugh Ferrand, in the XIII. century had a deed of grant to himself and his heirs of the office of Warder of Skipton castle." B.L.G.

The variation of the Farand. See Farrant - The English form of Ferdinandus, Spanish Fernandez, Italian Ferando, Old French Ferant

In Lincolnshire farrand means deep, cunning.

Variant form of Ferrand. Descendant of Ferrand, a contraction of Ferdinand meaning "journey, venture"; one who had iron-gray, or graying, hair.

The lastname Fury is form of Fearon. Feron, anciently Le Feron. Le Feyron, (Hundred Rolls) A name still well known in Normandy: derived by M. de Gerville from the same source as Ferrier-viz., from fer, ferrum—a worker in iron. There are horse-shoes in the arms of one family of this name.

How popular is Fury?

Fury is common in United States, England, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Iran, Wales.

Fury is ranked 145578 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Furys plummeted by 0.96 per cent to 1028 since 2000 and slipped by 1371 spots and ranked at 24370. The last name was found in around 4 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.83 92.58
Black 2.63 4.24
Others 2.14 0
Hispanic or Latino 2.04 0.96
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.78 1.06
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.58 0
Fury is not so popular last name but still a prevalent family name common in United States. On the other hand, it is more oftenly used in Wales. Around 3048 people have been found who wears Fury as their family name. Fury is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Fury:
21,976 United States1,593
Countries with hundreds of Fury:
12,588 England443
44,900 Indonesia237
16,859 Australia166
28,331 Canada120
35,891 Iran114
3,095 Wales101
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
6,548 Scotland57
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
182,981 France28
20,770 New Zealand22
163,016 Germany21
60,070 Czechia17
119,139 South Africa16
12,021 Ireland14
610,955 India11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
78,460 Zimbabwe10
249,062 Philippines6
486,533 Brazil6

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Child Catherine Fury from Great Britain aboard the Monteauma from Liverpool during the Irish famine. She is registered to be 9 years old when she arrived in USA on May 15, 1846. 50 years old John Fury, 20 years old Patrick Fury, Workman Daniel Fury, Patrick Fury, aged 18, Michael Fury (16) Workman, Mary Fury (40) Spinster, 10 years old Thomas Fury, Honorah Fury (8 months old) Infant, and 89 other Fury around 46.97% of whom were workman while others worked as spinster and servant, farmer, mechanic, brushmaker migrated to US.

From Germany

Jos. Fury worked as laborer and hailed from Germany. 23 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool & Queenstown on Scotland and arrived on November 14, 1865. 18 years old David Fury, 28 years old Caroline Fury, Catherine Fury, aged 8, Farmer Emile Fury, 3 years old Eugene Fury, Joseph Fury (5) Farmer, Merchant A. Fury, J. Fury (33) Merchant, are other Fury that migrated to US.

Fury Namesakes

  • Billy Fury, English singer
  • David Fury, American television writer, producer
  • Hannah Fury, American singer-songwriter with a following based on her independently produced melancholic recordings inspired by Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel 'Wicked'
  • We Are the Fury, American rock band

Fury Namesakes

  • Billy Fury, English singer
  • David Fury, American television writer, producer
  • Hannah Fury, American singer-songwriter with a following based on her independently produced melancholic recordings inspired by Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel 'Wicked'
  • We Are the Fury, American rock band

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