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    The surname Force

    A surname, carried by 4,108 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F620

    Force: #8,067 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Force #8,067, 4,108 people Force: #8,067 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Force #8,067, 4,108 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Force is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,108 people named Force in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,157 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,001.

    #8,067
    rank among US surnames
    4,108
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,668)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,060Ginsberg4,11075,121
    #8,065Kindle4,10975,139
    #8,067Jessee4,10875,157
    #8,070Haider4,10775,175
    #8,072McCarley4,10675,194
    #8,073Kinley4,10575,212
    #8,076Lovely4,10475,230

    Who is named Force

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

    93% of people named Force identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Forces

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Madeleine Astor
      American socialite and Titanic survivor (1893-1940)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Vorce

    Surnames that sound like Force

    Force has the Soundex code F620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Force?
    4,108 people in the United States had the surname Force in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,157 Americans. It ranked 8,067th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Force?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Force identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Force?
    Madeleine Astor, American socialite and Titanic survivor (1893-1940).
    Where is the surname Force most common?
    Wikidata records people named Force in the United States.
    Is the surname Force getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,001 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,108 in 2010, up 2.7%.
    What are other spellings of Force?
    Vorce.