Fourche
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fourche is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 249K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 71M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fourché in FR France.
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)
Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fourche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 249K | 31 | Fourché | 107 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 71M | listed | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Fourche is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, pitchfork
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 16 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fourche mean, and where does it come from?
- Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fourche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 273 people named Fourche in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fourché.
- How common is the name Fourche?
- Mondonomo estimates about 270 people in France have Fourche as their first surname, about 1 in 249 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fourcheThe 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, “Fourche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.