Forò
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of forare
Forò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 38K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 133K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,588 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Foro in CH Switzerland, ES Spain.
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)
third-person singular past historic of forare
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forò 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 | 1,588 | 1 in 133K | 1.6K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 112 | 1 in 38K | 112 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Foro | 5 |
| ES Spain | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | Foro | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
1,588 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Filippo Foròb. 1987ITItalian footballer
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Forò mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of forare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Forò have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Forò, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Forò most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forò is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forò?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,588 people named Forò, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Forò?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/for%C3%B2The 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, “Forò”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.