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The FORSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 365 53191 0 1
United States (1880 census) 48 50656 0 1
Change since 1880 +317 -2535 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORSTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 66 10728 0.001 11
California 43 48702 0.000 1
Florida 36 40985 0.000 2
Georgia 32 15955 0.000 4
Texas 31 37966 0.000 1
Top States for FORSTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 12 11072 0.002 15
Indiana 66 10728 0.001 11
Wisconsin 21 36844 0.000 4
Georgia 32 15955 0.000 4
Kentucky 15 16372 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of FORSTON

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

Ethnic distribution of FORSTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 273 74.79
Black/African American 85 23.29
Mixed Race 5 1.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FORSTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORSTON.

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 FORSTON

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