Foro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: court
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Foro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 133K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 38K
- ITItaly≈1 in 345K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (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
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
court
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Foro is read(measured from records)
Foro is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese40%
court
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Foro in English.
- Spanish13%
forum (a place for discussion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Foro in Croatian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Foro 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 | Foro | 41 |
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 345K | listed | Foro | 4 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Foro | 20 |
| HR Croatia | 112 | 1 in 38K | 112 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 3 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Foro | 7 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Foro is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forum (square or marketplace used for public business and commerce)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, a multi-generational rental contract or lease of farmland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, plural past indicative of fara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, plural past tense of fara
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,035 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 112 | #7,214 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 95 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2 | — |
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 Foro mean, and where does it come from?
- court Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Foro?
- A machine transcription gives /foɾu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Foro have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Foro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled foro.
- Where is Foro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Foro 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 Foro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,588 people named Foro, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/foroThe 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, “Foro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.