Fornies Surname
Approximately 761 people bear this surname
Fornies Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 598 | 1:78,181 | 6,789 |
| Argentina | 85 | 1:502,864 | 37,103 |
| France | 62 | 1:1,071,334 | 116,831 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Forniés (26) & Forniès (1) are calculated separately.
Fornies Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fornies Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Fornies is held by more people in Spain than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant: Forniés or Forniès. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Fornies? popularity and diffusion
It is the 447,670th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 9,576,276 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 87 percent of Fornies live; 79 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 79 percent live in Iberian Europe.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Spain, where it is borne by 598 people, or 1 in 78,181. In Spain it is primarily found in: Aragon, where 42 percent live, Catalonia, where 30 percent live and Madrid, where 11 percent live. Excluding Spain Fornies occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 11 percent live and France, where 8 percent live.
Fornies Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Fornies has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Fornies surname expanded 300 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Fornies
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