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The FORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,840 5473 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,255 4496 0.003 25
Change since 1880 +4585 -977 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 1 304574 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 653 3597 0.003 31
North Carolina 522 2250 0.006 65
Florida 410 5053 0.003 26
South Carolina 407 1655 0.010 101
Virginia 364 2555 0.005 51
Top States for FORE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 407 1655 0.010 101
Mississippi 231 1795 0.008 81
Alabama 334 2115 0.008 75
West Virginia 122 2078 0.007 67
North Carolina 522 2250 0.006 65

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FORE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FORE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FORE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FORE by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FORE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FORE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FORE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 699 11.97
Mixed Race 89 1.52
White (Hispanic) 87 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.7
Asian/Pacific 34 0.58
White (Caucasian) 4,890 83.73

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FORE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FORE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FORE.

Similar names to FORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FORE

The following words are slight variants of FORE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.