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The FORMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,202 2706 0.005 45
United States (1880 census) 2,439 2502 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +9763 -204 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 320 4918 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,745 3297 0.004 38
Top States for FORMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,402 1300 0.007 74
California 1,099 2883 0.003 32
Florida 1,092 1905 0.007 68
New Jersey 790 1134 0.009 94
Pennsylvania 709 2141 0.006 58
Top States for FORMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 790 1134 0.009 94
West Virginia 159 1630 0.009 88
Massachusetts 522 1754 0.008 82
Delaware 64 2190 0.008 82
New York 1,402 1300 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of FORMAN

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 FORMAN 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 FORMAN 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 FORMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 232 1.9
Mixed Race 146 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 60 0.49
Asian/Pacific 44 0.36
White (Caucasian) 10,383 85.09
Black/African American 1,337 10.96

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

Meaning of FORMAN in historical publications

FORMAN. FOREMAN. (A-Sax.)

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FORMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORMAN.

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 FORMAN

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