Forson
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Forson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps a variant of Farson or Forsen.
- USUnited States1 in 603K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 6.6M
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
552 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps a variant of Farson or Forsen.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 552 | 1 in 603K | 732 | Forson | 199 |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | Forson | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | Forson | 8 |
| GH Ghana | #136 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | 40K | Forson | 69 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | 2 |
552 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Habiba Atta Forsonb. 1945GHGhanaian football administrator and athlete
- Cassiel Ato Forsonb. 1978GHGhanaian politician and Minority Leader
- Lydia Forsonb. 1984GHGhanaian actress, writer and producer
- Kaya Forsonb. 2002CAGhanaian swimmer
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 40K | #99 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 732 | #33,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 552 | #39,773 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #75,700 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #67,301 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Forson mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps a variant of Farson or Forsen. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Forson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 552 people named Forson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forson.
- Where is Forson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forson is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 552 people named Forson in 2010, about 1 in 603 thousand residents.
- How common is Forson compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Forson is the 136th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forsonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Forson” — the 136th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.