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The FORTENBERRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,330 5087 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 258 15999 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +6072 +10912 +0.001 +19
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 2 35479 0 0
Top States for FORTENBERRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,657 229 0.058 582
Texas 802 2742 0.004 38
Louisiana 612 1041 0.014 137
Alabama 593 1193 0.013 133
Georgia 400 2348 0.005 49
Top States for FORTENBERRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,657 229 0.058 582
Louisiana 612 1041 0.014 137
Alabama 593 1193 0.013 133
Arkansas 239 1437 0.009 89
Georgia 400 2348 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of FORTENBERRY

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

Ethnic distribution of FORTENBERRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 953 15.06
Mixed Race 76 1.2
White (Hispanic) 67 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.25
Asian/Pacific 8 0.13
White (Caucasian) 5,210 82.31

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

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

Meaning of FORTENBERRY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORTENBERRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTENBERRY.

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 FORTENBERRY

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