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    The surname Fornwalt

    A German place surname, carried by 519 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F654

    Fornwalt: #41,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fornwalt #41,886, 519 people Fornwalt: #41,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Fornwalt #41,886, 519 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fornwalt is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Fornwalt, a topographic surname for someone who lived in front of a wood.

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

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 519 people named Fornwalt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 517.

    #41,886
    rank among US surnames
    519
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #39,946)

    Who is named Fornwalt

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

    99% of people named Fornwalt identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 99%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fornwalt come from?
    Borrowed from German Fornwalt, a topographic surname for someone who lived in front of a wood.
    How common is the surname Fornwalt?
    519 people in the United States had the surname Fornwalt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. It ranked 41,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fornwalt?
    In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Fornwalt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Fornwalt?
    Fornwalt is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Fornwalt getting more or less common?
    More common. 517 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 519 in 2010, up 0.4%.