How common is the surname Forgey?

1,495 people in the United States had the surname Forgey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,519 Americans. It ranked 18,486th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Forgey getting more or less common?

More common. 1,463 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,495 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Forgey

A surname, carried by 1,495 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Forgey is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

Perhaps an Americanized spelling of French Forget or an altered spelling of Forgie.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,495 people named Forgey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,519 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,463.

#18,486

rank among US surnames

1,495

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #17,676)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,478	Melnyk	1,496	206,381
#18,486	Newhall	1,495	206,519

Who is named Forgey

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

94% of people named Forgey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as two or more races and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Two or more races 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Forgy

Surnames that sound like Forgey

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

Questions

Where does the surname Forgey come from?: Perhaps an Americanized spelling of French Forget or an altered spelling of Forgie.
How common is the surname Forgey?: 1,495 people in the United States had the surname Forgey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,519 Americans. It ranked 18,486th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Forgey?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Forgey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as two or more races.
Is the surname Forgey getting more or less common?: More common. 1,463 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,495 in 2010, up 2.2%.
What are other spellings of Forgey?: Forgy.