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The FORTSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,079 7522 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 763 6851 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +3316 -671 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33029 0 0
Top States for FORTSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 991 1188 0.012 121
Texas 341 6332 0.002 16
Florida 279 7616 0.002 17
California 268 10669 0.001 8
North Carolina 191 4907 0.002 24
Top States for FORTSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 991 1188 0.012 121
Arkansas 156 2472 0.006 58
Alabama 174 3602 0.004 39
South Carolina 155 3692 0.004 39
North Carolina 191 4907 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of FORTSON

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

Ethnic distribution of FORTSON in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for FORTSON.

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

Meaning of FORTSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORTSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTSON.

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 FORTSON

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