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Globally, フォスター (Foster , フォスター ) is a common predominantly male, but very infrequently girly first name. The first name フォスター is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, where it is quite a common boy's name, Botswana, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and South Africa. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Ghana, the United States, and Nigeria. More prevalently, フォスター is the last name as well as the forename.
フォスター 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.