Forway Surname

2,220,661st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 73 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Forway Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Forway Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England591:944,37447,923
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
China21:683,660,78330,601
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England81:3,046,92180,371

Forway Last Name Facts

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

The surname Forway is most common in England. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Forway? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,220,661st most numerous last name on earth, held by around 1 in 99,829,396 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 82 percent of Forway are found; 81 percent are found in Northern Europe and 81 percent are found in British Isles.

The last name Forway is most frequently used in England, where it is held by 59 people, or 1 in 944,374. In England Forway is most common in: Essex, where 34 percent reside, Cambridgeshire, where 24 percent reside and Greater London, where 22 percent reside. Other than England this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 10 percent reside and The United States, where 5 percent reside.

Forway Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Forway has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Forway surname expanded 738 percent between 1881 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 Forway
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis