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The FOULGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 406 48776 0 1
United States (1880 census) 29 64268 0 1
Change since 1880 +377 +15492 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 40 30728 0 2
United Kingdom 1,099 4868 0.002 24
Top States for FOULGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 176 1749 0.008 79
California 68 33033 0.000 2
New York 19 85938 0.000 1
Arizona 18 28480 0.000 4
Oregon 18 22766 0.001 5
Top States for FOULGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 176 1749 0.008 79
Wyoming 10 7616 0.002 20
Oregon 18 22766 0.001 5
New Hampshire 5 29293 0.000 4
Arizona 18 28480 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 FOULGER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOULGER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOULGER in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOULGER by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOULGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOULGER 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 FOULGER 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 FOULGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 399 98.28
Mixed Race 5 1.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FOULGER in historical publications

FOULGER. A-Sax.oZg-ere, a follower, an attendant, a servant, a free-man who had not a liouse of his own, but who was the retainer of some " heorth-fest," or house-kee23T;r. Bosworth.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FOULGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOULGER.

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 FOULGER

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