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The FORS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 867 26469 0 3
United States (1880 census) 58 45717 0 1
Change since 1880 +809 +19248 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 9 91273 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 101 6846 0.002 21
Washington 96 7101 0.002 16
Massachusetts 90 8223 0.001 14
California 62 32546 0.000 2
Illinois 52 23500 0.000 4
Top States for FORS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 15 6916 0.002 23
Minnesota 101 6846 0.002 21
Washington 96 7101 0.002 16
Massachusetts 90 8223 0.001 14
Iowa 37 11422 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of FORS

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

Ethnic distribution of FORS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 810 93.43
White (Hispanic) 41 4.73
Mixed Race 8 0.92
Black/African American 7 0.81
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FORS in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORS.

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 FORS

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