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Around the world, פוסטר (Foster , Poster , פוסטר ) is a common primarily masculine, but scarcely feminine given name. The first name פוסטר is characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, where it is quite a common male name, Botswana, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and South Africa, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Ghana, the United States, and Nigeria. More prevalently, פוסטר is the last name as well as the forename.
פוסטר is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bouncing Boy , the DC Comics superhero, Superman: The Animated Series; Foster Fenwick , the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, Too Hot to Handle; Foster , the character in the play "No Man's Land" and Foster Wilson , the musical character in the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin; hotel owner.