The FOREMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,130	1186	0.01	101
United States (1880 census)	6,034	1017	0.012	121
Change since 1880	+21096	-169	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	1,061	1558	0.006	65
United Kingdom	5,342	1170	0.012	116

Top States for FOREMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,880	937	0.014	138
California	1,977	1719	0.006	58
Florida	1,547	1390	0.010	97
Louisiana	1,541	412	0.034	345
Ohio	1,513	892	0.013	133
Top States for FOREMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,541	412	0.034	345
Oklahoma	938	494	0.027	272
Delaware	159	888	0.020	203
Mississippi	506	919	0.018	178
Indiana	1,026	712	0.017	169

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

Classification and Origin of FOREMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	510	1.88
White (Hispanic)	437	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	434	1.6
Asian/Pacific	119	0.44
White (Caucasian)	18,549	68.37
Black/African American	7,081	26.1

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

Similar names to FOREMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOREMAN.

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.