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The surname Foor

A surname, carried by 3,113 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F600

Foor: #10,348 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Foor #10,348, 3,113 people Foor: #10,348 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Foor #10,348, 3,113 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foor is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,113 people named Foor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,179 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,014.

#10,348
rank among US surnames
3,113
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+3.3%
change since 2000 (was #9,878)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,339Leroux3,11599,116
#10,346Truelove3,11499,148
#10,348Küng3,11399,179
#10,352Sias3,11299,211

Who is named Foor

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Foor identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Foor

Foor has the Soundex code F600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F600.

Questions

How common is the surname Foor?
3,113 people in the United States had the surname Foor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,179 Americans. It ranked 10,348th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Foor?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Foor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Foor getting more or less common?
More common. 3,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,113 in 2010, up 3.3%.