Fornés

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fornés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Fornés, a respelling of Forners.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 35K
  • USUnited States1 in 588K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

2,672 people

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fornes in AR Argentina, ES Spain, US United States and 4 more.

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(measured from records)

Derivation of Fornés: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Fornés
  1. CatalanFornés(measured from records)
  2. NorwegianFornes(measured from records)

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Fornés, a respelling of Forners. * Borrowed from Norwegian Fornes, a habitational surname composed of the elements fura (“pine”) or for (“foremost”) and nes (“headland”).

Sources 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fornés 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.

Where Fornés is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—2,6721 in 19K2.7KFornes106
AR Argentina—1,3171 in 35K1.3KFornes50
NO Norway—1,0021 in 5.5K1KFornes23
US United States—5661 in 588K593Fornes178
FR France—≈420 est.≈1 in 163K56—3
LR Liberia#459≈210 est.≈1 in 24K—Fornes1
PT Portugal—≈95 est.≈1 in 108K—Fornes4
HM Heard & McDonald Islands#188———Fornes1

2,672 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fornés is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fornes, Fornès

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States

    Also written Fornes, Fornès

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Poland, United States

    Also written Fornes

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Fornes

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Fornes, Форнес

  • Lithuanian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fornes

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Manuel Fornés y Gurrea, b. 1777Paula Montal Fornés, b. 1799María Irene Fornés, b. 1930Juan Fornés, b. 1939Lluís Fornés i Pérez-Costa, b. 1945Antoni Mas Fornés, b. 1968

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fornés mean, and where does it come from?
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Fornés, a respelling of Forners. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Fornés have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Fornés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fornes.
Where is Fornés most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fornés is densest in Norway — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fornés?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,672 people named Fornés, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Fornés compared with other names?
In Heard & McDonald Islands, Fornés is the 188th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Fornés” — the 188th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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