Fornes

Name: Fornes: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025

/foɾnes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Fornes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 2,672 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Fornés, a respelling of Forners.

NONorway1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
ESSpain1 in 19K
ARArgentina1 in 35K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Spain (measured from records)
Record sources: 178 (measured from records)
: 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Fornes

Spanish:/foɾnes/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

Fornes

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”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Fornes is found

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.

Where Fornes is recorded, by country
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	—	≈440 est.	≈1 in 158K	56	—	3
LR Liberia	#459	≈220 est.	≈1 in 26K	—	Fornes	1
UY Uruguay	—	27	1 in 125K	27	Fornes	7
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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

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

French surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Spain, United States
Also written Fornès, Fornés
Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Norway, United States, Spain, Sweden
Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Also written Förnes, Fornés
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Fornès, Fornés
Italian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, Philippines
Also written Fornés, Fornès
a separate surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom
Also written Fornés
Russian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, United States, Russia
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Fornés, Форнес

36 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

Charles V. Fornesb. 1844USAmerican politician (1844-1929)
José Fornes Ruizb. 1930ESSpanish physician
Jarle Fornesb. 1995NONorwegian volleyball 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

FormalEstimado/a Fornes,Dear Fornes, (English)

InformalEstimado/a Fornes,Hello, (English)

Evidence

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

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?: In Spanish /foɾnes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Fornes?: 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. After it come Argentina, Norway, United States and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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” — ranked 1907th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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