Fornes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foɾnes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fornes 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,672 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- CatalanFornés(measured from records)
- 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fornes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,672 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Fornes | 106 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,317 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | Fornes | 50 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,002 | 1 in 5.5K | 1K | Fornes | 23 |
| US United States | — | 566 | 1 in 588K | 593 | Fornes | 178 |
| FR France | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 56 | — | 3 |
| LR Liberia | #459 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Fornes | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Fornes | 4 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #188 | — | — | — | Fornes | 1 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles V. Fornesb. 1844USAmerican politician (1844-1929)
- Johan Fornesb. 1899NONorwegian farmer (1899-1970)
- José Fornes Ruizb. 1930ESSpanish physician
- Sverre Fornesb. 1932NONorwegian footballer (1932-2021)
- Alf Einar Fornesb. 1949NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Per Ivar Fornesb. 1967NONorwegian association football player
- Jarle Fornesb. 1995NONorwegian volleyball player
- Sara Kanutte Fornesb. 2001NONorwegian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 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 Fornes mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Fornés, a respelling of Forners. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Fornes?
- A machine transcription gives /foɾnes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Fornes have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Fornes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fornes.
- Where is Fornes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fornes 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 Fornes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,672 people named Fornes, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Fornes compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Fornes is the 188th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fornesThe 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, “Fornes” — the 188th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.