Forsyth

At the 2020 census, 8,265 Americans bore the surname Forsyth — 4,154th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,265
Rank: 4,154th
How common: 1 in 36,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth (1938–2025)English novelist
John Forsyth (1780–1841)American politician
Tim Forsyth (born 1973)Australian high jumper
Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017)British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter
Bill Forsyth (born 1946)British film director
Andrew Forsyth (1858–1942)British mathematician
Tom Forsyth (1949–2020)Scottish footballer
William Forsyth (1737–1804)Scottish botanist and horticulturist

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

Surnames like Forsyth

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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.