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    The surname Forge

    A French place surname, carried by 564 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F620

    Forge: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Forge #39,052, 564 people Forge: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Forge #39,052, 564 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Forge is more common than 75.9% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.

    Forge is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 564 people named Forge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. That is down 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 574.

    #39,052
    rank among US surnames
    564
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #36,716)

    Who is named Forge

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

    57% of people named Forge identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 57%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 40%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Forge

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

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Forge come from?
    From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.
    How common is the surname Forge?
    564 people in the United States had the surname Forge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. It ranked 39,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Forge?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Forge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Forge?
    Forge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Forge getting more or less common?
    Less common. 574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 564 in 2010, down 1.7%.