Fortenberry

At the 2020 census, 6,270 Americans bore the surname Fortenberry — 5,369th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,270
Rank: 5,369th
How common: 1 in 47,700
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 16.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fortenberry

Jeff Fortenberry (born 1960)United States Representative from Nebraska from 2005 to 2022
Joe Fortenberry (1911–1993)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Fortenberry

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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.