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The FORESMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 898 25754 0 3
United States (1880 census) 232 17267 0 5
Change since 1880 +666 -8487 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORESMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 168 8536 0.001 14
Florida 76 20652 0.000 5
California 47 42536 0.000 1
Iowa 47 9121 0.002 16
Virginia 41 13841 0.001 6
Top States for FORESMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 47 9121 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 168 8536 0.001 14
Kansas 30 10149 0.001 11
Delaware 8 15280 0.001 10
Oklahoma 32 10654 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of FORESMAN

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

Ethnic distribution of FORESMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 870 96.88
Native American/Alaskan 9 1
Mixed Race 8 0.89
White (Hispanic) 8 0.89
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FORESMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORESMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORESMAN.

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 FORESMAN

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