Forsythe

Forsythe is the 3,123rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,239 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,600.

By the numbers

People: 11,239
Rank: 3,123rd
How common: 1 in 26,600
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic personal name Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear (“man”) + sìth (“peace”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.7%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Forsythe

John Forsythe (1918–2010)American film and television actor
William Forsythe (born 1955)American actor
William Forsythe (born 1949)American choreographer

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

Surnames like Forsythe

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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.