The FORTES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,486	17483	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	61	44333	0	1
Change since 1880	+1425	+26850	+N/A	+5
Other Countries
Australia	10	90933	0	1
United Kingdom	79	24879	0	2

Top States for FORTES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	410	2435	0.006	65
Rhode Island	282	520	0.027	269
California	222	12674	0.001	7
Florida	151	13170	0.001	9
New York	82	24912	0.000	4
Top States for FORTES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	282	520	0.027	269
Massachusetts	410	2435	0.006	65
Connecticut	34	15431	0.001	10
Florida	151	13170	0.001	9
New Jersey	73	15104	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of FORTES

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

Ethnic distribution of FORTES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	437	29.41
White (Caucasian)	331	22.27
Black/African American	259	17.43
White (Hispanic)	249	16.76
Asian/Pacific	204	13.73
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.4

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

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

Similar names to FORTES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTES.

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.