Forsen

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Forsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 14K
  • NONorway1 in 304K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

885 people

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Forsén in SE Sweden.

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)

Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”).

Sources 1

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Forsen 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 Forsen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden8851 in 12K885Forsén8
FI Finland4101 in 14K410Forsen5
US United States1011 in 3.3M107——
NO Norway181 in 304K18——
PL Poland31 in 13M3——

885 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Forsen is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, Sweden

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Forsén

  • Swedish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Forsén

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Peru, Finland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Forsén

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Also written Forsén, Forsèn

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Forsén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Forsén

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Forsén

22 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Forsen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, definite singular of fors

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Forsen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000107#142,819
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010101#159,712
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—85#14,459
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18#44,970
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Forsen mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Swedish Forsén, an ornamental surname based on the element fors (“waterfall”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Forsen have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 885 people named Forsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forsén.
Where is Forsen most common?
Forsen is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Forsen?
In Sweden, the national register counted 885 people named Forsen, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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 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, “Forsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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