How common is the surname Foshee?

3,070 people in the United States had the surname Foshee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,569 Americans. It ranked 10,468th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Foshee getting more or less common?

More common. 3,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,070 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Foshee

A French surname, carried by 3,070 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foshee is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

French origin

Americanized spelling of French Faucheux.

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 3,070 people named Foshee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 100,569 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,050.

#10,468

rank among US surnames

3,070

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,782)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,462	Stecker	3,073	100,470
#10,465	Janzen	3,072	100,503
#10,466	McAlpin	3,071	100,536
#10,468	Carreiro	3,070	100,569
#10,471	Cevallos	3,069	100,601
#10,472	Taulbee	3,068	100,634

Who is named Foshee

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

93% of people named Foshee identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Foshee

Foshee has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Foshee come from?: Americanized spelling of French Faucheux.
How common is the surname Foshee?: 3,070 people in the United States had the surname Foshee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,569 Americans. It ranked 10,468th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Foshee?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Foshee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Foshee getting more or less common?: More common. 3,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,070 in 2010, up 0.7%.