The FORNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,600	4886	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	2,215	2729	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+4385	-2157	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	16	29318	0	0

Top States for FORNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	909	1727	0.007	74
California	545	5511	0.002	16
North Carolina	507	2355	0.006	63
Ohio	465	3218	0.004	41
Texas	427	5156	0.002	20
Top States for FORNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	148	1452	0.009	86
Wyoming	38	1719	0.008	77
Pennsylvania	909	1727	0.007	74
North Carolina	507	2355	0.006	63
Maryland	311	2087	0.006	59

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

Classification and Origin of FORNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	98	1.48
Mixed Race	89	1.35
Asian/Pacific	38	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.3
White (Caucasian)	4,812	72.91
Black/African American	1,543	23.38

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

Similar names to FORNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORNEY.

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.