Førster
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Førster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common surname. Førster is also written ฟอรสเตอร in Thai.
- DKDenmark1 in 99K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.9Kas Förster
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.1Kas Forster
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Førster itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 392 (measured from records)
- 1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Förster, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Førster in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Forster in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more and Förster in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Førster is found
(measured from records)Førster counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #99 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Förster | 163 |
| US United States | — | 9,116as Forster | 1 in 36K | 9.1K | Forster | 392 |
| GB United Kingdom | #578 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | listed | Forster | 238 |
| AU Australia | #668 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Forster | 172 |
| CH Switzerland | #177 | 2,699as Forster | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | Forster | 67 |
| AT Austria | #311 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Forster | 76 |
| DK Denmark | — | 59 | 1 in 99K | 59 | Førster | 33 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Førster?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Förster in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Førster most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Førster is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 99 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Førster?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 59 people named Førster, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Førster compared with other names?
- In Germany, Førster is the 99th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Førster?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%B8rsterThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Førster” — the 99th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.