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The FORSHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 997 23698 0 4
United States (1880 census) 154 23284 0 3
Change since 1880 +843 -414 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 8 106227 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORSHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 260 4657 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 181 7244 0.001 15
West Virginia 81 2478 0.004 45
Florida 44 30444 0.000 3
California 41 44416 0.000 1
Top States for FORSHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 81 2478 0.004 45
Delaware 19 6134 0.002 24
Ohio 260 4657 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 181 7244 0.001 15
Nevada 14 13808 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of FORSHEY

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

Ethnic distribution of FORSHEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 946 94.88
White (Hispanic) 15 1.5
Native American/Alaskan 13 1.3
Mixed Race 12 1.2
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FORSHEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORSHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORSHEY.

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 FORSHEY

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