The FORAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,160	9436	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	688	7463	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2472	-1973	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	603	2683	0.004	37
United Kingdom	796	6285	0.002	17

Top States for FORAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	287	6888	0.002	15
Florida	270	7292	0.002	17
Illinois	242	5476	0.002	19
California	240	10904	0.001	7
New Jersey	211	4659	0.003	25
Top States for FORAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Connecticut	182	2487	0.005	53
Montana	33	4185	0.004	37
Delaware	26	5333	0.003	33
Vermont	20	4639	0.003	33
Maine	40	4433	0.003	31

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FORAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	56	1.77
Asian/Pacific	33	1.04
Black/African American	29	0.92
Mixed Race	21	0.66
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.16
White (Caucasian)	3,016	95.44

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

Similar names to FORAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORAN.

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.