The surname Fortney
A surname, carried by 4,853 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F635
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,853 people named Fortney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,620 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,833.
#6,914
rank among US surnames
4,853
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.4%
change since 2000 (was #6,480)
Who is named Fortney
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Fortney identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Fortney has the Soundex code F635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F635.
Questions
- How common is the surname Fortney?
- 4,853 people in the United States had the surname Fortney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,620 Americans. It ranked 6,914th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fortney?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Fortney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fortney getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,833 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,853 in 2010, up 0.4%.