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    The surname Forcier

    A surname, carried by 2,171 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex F626

    Forcier: #13,911 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Forcier #13,911, 2,171 people Forcier: #13,911 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Forcier #13,911, 2,171 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Forcier is more common than 91.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,171 people named Forcier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 142,214 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,077.

    #13,911
    rank among US surnames
    2,171
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #13,440)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,903Montesinos2,172142,148
    #13,911Forcier2,171142,214
    #13,916Luper2,170142,279

    Who is named Forcier

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

    95% of people named Forcier identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Forcier

    Forcier has the Soundex code F626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F626.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Forcier?
    2,171 people in the United States had the surname Forcier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 142,214 Americans. It ranked 13,911th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Forcier?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Forcier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Forcier getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,077 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,171 in 2010, up 4.5%.