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The FORIEST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 139 116123 0 0
United States (1880 census) 16 78960 0 0
Change since 1880 +123 -37163 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORIEST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 54 9009 0.001 9
Michigan 15 67587 0.000 2
Virginia 13 37208 0.000 2
California 12 151146 0.000 0
North Carolina 12 34144 0.000 1
Top States for FORIEST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 54 9009 0.001 9
Virginia 13 37208 0.000 2
Michigan 15 67587 0.000 2
North Carolina 12 34144 0.000 1
Mississippi 2 37584 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of FORIEST

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FORIEST surname.

Ethnic distribution of FORIEST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 76 54.68
White (Caucasian) 61 43.88
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

FORIEST is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FORIEST in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORIEST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORIEST.

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 FORIEST

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