Fun Facts About the Name Furious
- 148 babies named Furious: U.S. records list 148 babies given the name Furious from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Furious Mean?
Furious is an English word name meaning "extremely angry" or "raging." It comes from the Latin adjective furiosus, "raging, mad, furious," formed from furia, "fury, rage," and the suffix -osus, "full of, characterized by." The literal sense is "full of fury." English acquired the word through Old French furieus.
The name is a vocabulary word rather than a traditional inherited personal name with a separate naming etymology. The older sense of the adjective included violent madness or frenzy, while the modern everyday sense is usually "very angry."
Furious Name History & Origins
The word behind Furious is Latin furiosus, used in classical Latin for someone or something raging, frantic, or mad. It was borrowed into Old French as furieus and passed into Middle English as furious, keeping the sense of violent anger or frenzy. The same Latin root produced fury and the name of the Furies, the avenging goddesses of Greek and Roman myth.
As a personal name, Furious belongs to the category of English word names, which use ordinary vocabulary as names. Its use as a given name is not part of a medieval or religious naming tradition; the word's appearances in literature and film are uses of the adjective, not evidence of an older personal-name tradition.
How Popular is the Name Furious?
Furious has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2006. Its best rank was #6,217 in 2006.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,646 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #12,874 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #12,743 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #8,278 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #11,212 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #11,223 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #7,767 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #11,172 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #12,694 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #12,674 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #12,746 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #11,198 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #11,453 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #8,412 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #6,217 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #9,441 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #10,397 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #8,490 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #8,516 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #6,411 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #6,323 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #8,635 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Furious Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are kind, home-loving, hospitable and friendly. Since you take responsibility well, you are a good organizer of social affairs. Compassion for others is an outstanding trait. You are a great lover and a great flirt – an artist, musician, actor, teacher, nurse. Your character can be contradictory. You are practical, yet idealistic and intuitive; capable of selfless devotion to someone you love, yet look to receive payback. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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