Foray Surname
Approximately 9,913 people bear this surname
Foray Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 8,174 | 1:867 | 170 |
| France | 1,361 | 1:48,804 | 6,345 |
| United States | 201 | 1:1,803,278 | 118,231 |
| Argentina | 46 | 1:929,205 | 59,251 |
| Liberia | 40 | 1:110,213 | 8,601 |
| Switzerland | 20 | 1:410,646 | 30,429 |
| England | 15 | 1:3,714,537 | 119,675 |
| Netherlands | 12 | 1:1,407,265 | 75,423 |
| Hungary | 7 | 1:1,402,325 | 60,133 |
| Romania | 6 | 1:3,346,312 | 56,696 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Foray (31) may also be a first name.
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Foray Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Foray Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Foray has its highest incidence in Sierra Leone. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Foray? popularity and diffusion
The surname Foray is the 51,680th most frequent last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 735,150 people. The surname Foray is predominantly found in Africa, where 83 percent of Foray live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Foray is also the 1,874,099th most prevalent forename globally. It is borne by 31 people.
The last name Foray is most frequent in Sierra Leone, where it is carried by 8,174 people, or 1 in 867. Barring Sierra Leone it exists in 24 countries. It also occurs in France, where 14 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Foray Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Foray has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Foray last name expanded 5,025 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 750 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Foray Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Foray surname are 9.33% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56.1% being registered to vote for the party.
Foray earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 23.56% more than the national average, earning $53,313 USD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Foray
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