The FORTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,387	2891	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	233	17194	0	5
Change since 1880	+11154	+14303	+N/A	+37
Other Countries
Australia	397	3985	0.002	24
United Kingdom	539	8397	0.001	12

Top States for FORTE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,613	1131	0.009	85
Florida	1,194	1745	0.007	75
New Jersey	1,019	858	0.012	121
Pennsylvania	743	2052	0.006	60
California	715	4190	0.002	21
Top States for FORTE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	225	618	0.021	215
Connecticut	453	897	0.013	133
New Jersey	1,019	858	0.012	121
Massachusetts	588	1572	0.009	93
New York	1,613	1131	0.009	85

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

Classification and Origin of FORTE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FORTE 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.

Ethnic distribution of FORTE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	552	4.85
Mixed Race	204	1.79
Asian/Pacific	56	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.25
White (Caucasian)	7,411	65.08
Black/African American	3,136	27.54

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

Similar names to FORTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTE.

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.