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    The surname Forth

    A surname, carried by 1,659 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F630

    Forth: #17,104 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Forth #17,104, 1,659 people Forth: #17,104 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Forth #17,104, 1,659 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Forth is more common than 89.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,659 people named Forth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 186,103 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,556.

    #17,104
    rank among US surnames
    1,659
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,880)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,097DeNicola1,660185,991
    #17,104Prioleau1,659186,103
    #17,111Ulm1,658186,216

    Who is named Forth

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

    88% of people named Forth identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Forth

    Forth 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 Forth?
    1,659 people in the United States had the surname Forth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 186,103 Americans. It ranked 17,104th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Forth?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Forth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Forth getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,659 in 2010, up 6.6%.