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The FORRESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,276 2487 0.005 49
United States (1880 census) 1,795 3292 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +11481 +805 +0.001 +13
Other Countries
Australia 1,428 1146 0.009 87
United Kingdom 6,329 997 0.014 138
Top States for FORRESTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 1,129 971 0.014 138
Florida 992 2105 0.006 62
Tennessee 968 921 0.017 170
California 843 3620 0.002 25
Texas 685 3381 0.003 33
Top States for FORRESTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 968 921 0.017 170
South Carolina 609 1099 0.015 152
Georgia 1,129 971 0.014 138
Alabama 484 1503 0.011 109
Arkansas 280 1293 0.010 105

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

Classification and Origin of FORRESTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORRESTER 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 FORRESTER 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 FORRESTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 186 1.4
White (Hispanic) 170 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.52
Asian/Pacific 46 0.35
White (Caucasian) 11,566 87.12
Black/African American 1,239 9.33

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

Meaning of FORRESTER in historical publications

FORESTER. FORRESTER. " An

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FORRESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORRESTER.

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 FORRESTER

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