Last Name FORTE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Nickname: Strong, powerful, from Old French 'fort,' strong.

Origin	English, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, Irish, Portuguese, Belgian

Rank	2,891 (2000 US census)	2,864 (1990 US census)

Count	11,387 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

65.08%, or 7411 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
27.54%, or 3136 total occurrences, as black,
0.49%, or 56 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.25%, or 28 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.79%, or 204 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
4.85%, or 552 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte