Foelster
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/foelstɛr/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Foelster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 200Kfew recordsas Fölster(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 340Kfew recordsas Folster
- BRBrazil1 in 348Kas Folster
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 Foelster itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
609 named Folster
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Foelster in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Folster in US United States, BR Brazil, CA Canada and 3 more and Fölster 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.
How to pronounce Foelster
- Spanish:/foelstɛr/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Foelster is found
(measured from records)Foelster 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 609as Folster | 1 in 348K | 609 | Folster | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Fölster | 41 |
| US United States | 218as Folster | 1 in 1.5M | 260 | Folster | 126 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 341K | — | Folster | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Folster | 14 |
| PE Peru | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Foelster | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Folster | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Folster | 8 |
609 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Foelster?
- In Spanish /foelstɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Foelster?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 609 people named Folster, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Foelster?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 609 people named Folster, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Foelster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/foelsterThe 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, “Foelster” — ranked 14270th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.