The FORSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,033	3615	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	1,645	3531	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+7388	-84	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	2,602	604	0.016	159
United Kingdom	11,399	527	0.025	248

Top States for FORSTER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	972	3107	0.003	29
New York	709	2589	0.004	37
Michigan	535	2045	0.005	54
Florida	519	3818	0.003	32
Pennsylvania	491	3039	0.004	40
Top States for FORSTER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	108	704	0.017	168
Oregon	275	1487	0.008	80
Wisconsin	425	1467	0.008	79
Wyoming	37	1594	0.007	75
Minnesota	317	1802	0.006	64

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

Classification and Origin of FORSTER

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 FORSTER 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 FORSTER 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 FORSTER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	379	4.2
White (Hispanic)	109	1.21
Mixed Race	91	1.01
Asian/Pacific	56	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.41
White (Caucasian)	8,361	92.56

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

Similar names to FORSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORSTER.

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.