About the Fuhrmann Surname

In census returns, Fuhrmann often stands in for Furman. Name scholars give the meaning as “Someone who conveyed passengers by boat across a stream”. Before spelling was fixed, Furman was also written Fuhrmann. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

In the 2010 US Census, 1,951 Americans gave Fuhrmann as their last name (rank 15,120). That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. INSEE counts 2,069 people born in France with the Fuhrmann surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960.

Arms linked to Furman and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Fuhrmann family name pack.