Fortenbery Surname

1,380,086th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 159 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Fortenbery Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fortenbery Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1591:2,279,616142,122
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States801:627,73441,746

Fortenbery Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Fortenbery Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Fortenbery occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Fortenbery? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,380,086th most commonly occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 45,833,622 people. The last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 97 percent of Fortenbery reside; 97 percent reside in North America and 97 percent reside in Anglo-North America.

The last name is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 159 people, or 1 in 2,279,616. In The United States Fortenbery is most frequent in: Florida, where 17 percent reside, North Carolina, where 13 percent reside and Kentucky, where 10 percent reside.

Fortenbery Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Fortenbery has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Fortenbery surname expanded 199 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Fortenbery Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Fortenbery last name are 25.57% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 72.34% being registered to vote for the political party.

Fortenbery earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 0.27% less than the national average, earning $43,031 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
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  • 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 Fortenbery
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