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The FORET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,683 10888 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 121 27745 0 2
Change since 1880 +2562 +16857 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,941 317 0.043 434
Texas 220 8577 0.001 11
Florida 96 18190 0.001 6
Mississippi 77 3996 0.003 27
California 32 64457 0.000 1
Top States for FORET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,941 317 0.043 434
Mississippi 77 3996 0.003 27
Texas 220 8577 0.001 11
Arkansas 19 11483 0.001 7
North Dakota 4 19798 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of FORET

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 FORET 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 FORET in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 116 4.32
White (Hispanic) 40 1.49
Mixed Race 38 1.42
White (Caucasian) 2,471 92.1
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 FORET surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FORET in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORET.

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 FORET

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