The FORTSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,079	7522	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	763	6851	0.002	15
Change since 1880	+3316	-671	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	4	33029	0	0

Top States for FORTSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	991	1188	0.012	121
Texas	341	6332	0.002	16
Florida	279	7616	0.002	17
California	268	10669	0.001	8
North Carolina	191	4907	0.002	24
Top States for FORTSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	991	1188	0.012	121
Arkansas	156	2472	0.006	58
Alabama	174	3602	0.004	39
South Carolina	155	3692	0.004	39
North Carolina	191	4907	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of FORTSON

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

Ethnic distribution of FORTSON in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for FORTSON.

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

Similar names to FORTSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORTSON.

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.