Forness Surname
Approximately 837 people bear this surname
Forness Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 784 | 1:462,320 | 39,439 |
| Norway | 18 | 1:285,683 | 29,080 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 49 | 1:1,024,871 | 60,160 |
Forness Demographics
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Forness Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Forness Come From? nationality or country of origin
Forness (Russian: Форнесс) is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Forness? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 415,769th most commonly held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 8,706,745 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 92 percent of Forness are found; 92 percent are found in North America and 92 percent are found in Anglo-North America.
The surname Forness is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 784 people, or 1 in 462,320. In The United States Forness is most frequent in: New York, where 14 percent live, Minnesota, where 12 percent live and Missouri, where 10 percent live. Not including The United States Forness occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Norway, where 2 percent live and Canada, where 2 percent live.
Forness Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Forness has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Forness surname grew 1,600 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Forness Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Forness are 14.52% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 61.29% registered with the party.
The amount Forness earn in different countries varies significantly. In Norway they earn 30.62% less than the national average, earning 240,107 kr per year; in United States they earn 0.19% less than the national average, earning $43,065 USD per year and in Canada they earn 20.67% less than the national average, earning $39,412 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Forness Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Forness in the Russian language | ||
| Форнесс | forness | - |
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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 Forness
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