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The FORTIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,543 4352 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 915 5879 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +6628 +1527 +0.001 +10
Other Countries
Australia 28 40470 0 2
United Kingdom 16 29200 0 0
Top States for FORTIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 852 990 0.013 134
California 559 4858 0.002 17
Florida 554 3492 0.003 35
New Hampshire 538 264 0.044 435
Maine 510 430 0.040 400
Top States for FORTIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 538 264 0.044 435
Maine 510 430 0.040 400
Delaware 280 402 0.036 357
Vermont 203 398 0.033 333
Rhode Island 194 681 0.019 185

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

Classification and Origin of FORTIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORTIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of FORTIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 204 2.7
White (Hispanic) 172 2.28
Mixed Race 78 1.03
Asian/Pacific 33 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.3
White (Caucasian) 7,033 93.24

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

Meaning of FORTIER in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORTIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTIER.

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 FORTIER

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