The surname Forbus
A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,409 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F612
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
Variant spelling of Forbes.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,409 people named Forbus in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,363.
Who is named Forbus
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Forbus identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Forbus has the Soundex code F612, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F612.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Forbus come from?
- Variant spelling of Forbes.
- How common is the surname Forbus?
- 1,409 people in the United States had the surname Forbus in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. It ranked 19,242nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Forbus?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Forbus identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Forbus getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,363 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,409 in 2010, up 3.4%.