How common is the surname Foret?

2,881 people in the United States had the surname Foret in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,166 Americans. It ranked 11,035th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Foret?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Foret identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Foret getting more or less common?

More common. 2,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,881 in 2010, up 7.4%.

The surname Foret

A surname, carried by 2,881 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foret is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,881 people named Foret in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,166 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,683.

#11,035

rank among US surnames

2,881

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+7.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,888)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,026	Feder	2,884	107,055
#11,030	Hauge	2,883	107,092
#11,031	Chambless	2,882	107,129
#11,035	Foret	2,881	107,166
#11,040	Bruder	2,880	107,203
#11,044	Rickett	2,879	107,241

Who is named Foret

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

89% of people named Foret identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
American Indian and Alaska Native 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Foret

Foret has the Soundex code F630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F630.

Questions

How common is the surname Foret?: 2,881 people in the United States had the surname Foret in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,166 Americans. It ranked 11,035th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Foret?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Foret identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Foret getting more or less common?: More common. 2,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,881 in 2010, up 7.4%.