Foerster

At the 2020 census, 2,511 Americans bore the surname Foerster — 11,914th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 119,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,511
Rank: 11,914th
How common: 1 in 119,000
Per 100,000: 0.84

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Foerster described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Foerster

Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832–1921)German astronomer
Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002)Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951)Czech composer and educator
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869–1966)German academic, philosopher, editor and pacifist
Paul Foerster (born 1963)sailor
Richard Foerster (1843–1922)German classical philologist, archaeologist and art historian
Tyson Foerster (born 2002)Canadian ice hockey player

People named Foerster with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.