Fort

7,821 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fort in the 2020 census, making it the 4,392nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 38,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,821
Rank: 4,392nd
How common: 1 in 38,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.5%
Black, not Hispanic 30.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Fort

Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971)German writer of novels, poems and essays
Paul Fort (1872–1960)French poet and playwright
Charles Fort (1874–1932)American writer
Héctor Fort (born 2006)Spanish footballer
François Le Fort (1656–1699)Russian admiral from the Republic of Geneva
Cornelia Fort (1919–1943)American aviator
Jaume Fort (born 1966)Spanish handball player

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

Surnames like Fort

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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.