Foerster is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Germany, England. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Foerster
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Ireland, Germany, England
Meaning:

The surname is variation of the Foyster. An evident corruption of Forester, resulting from mispronunciation of the letter R.

Foerster is a form of the Foster. Sometimes a contraction of Forester: but there is an origin at least equally probable, viz: fosterer, one who feeds and has the charge of children instead of their parents. "When a gesithcund man left his land, he was at liberty to take away his Reeve, his Smith, and his child's Fosterer.

The surname is the form of the Forster. A curt pronounciation of Forester. There are many families of this name of separate origins. The Durham family were characterized as THE FRIENDLY FORSTERS.

Foerster is a variant of Forrest. From residence in one. Forest is, however, the specific name of place in counties Durham, Brecon, etc.

Lastname is a form of the Forste. Dweller in, or near, a forest.

Is a form of the Forrest. Dweller at, or in, a large wood or forest.

A forest warden or gamekeeper.

Surname Foerster is form of the Foster. A forest warden, or gamekeeper, a manor official.

The family name Foerster is a variant of Forster. Forester; also Fosterer, i.e., Foster-father or brother.

Lastname is a form of Fewster. 1. Halliwell has fustrer, a maker of pack-saddles. 2. Feuster, a female feoffee.

How popular is Foerster?

Foerster is common in United States, Germany, Canada, Israel, Brazil, France, Thailand, Poland.

Foerster is ranked 52511 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Foerster bearers increased by 1.6 per cent in 2010 US census to 2792 since 2000, the surname slipped by 634 spots and ranked at 11312. The last name was found in around 10 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.09 96.65
Hispanic or Latino 2.01 1.31
Others 1.76 1.02
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.57 0.51
Foerster is quite popular family name mostly used in United States however Germany is ahead in terms of density. Around 9746 people have been found who wears Foerster as their family name. Foerster is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Foerster:
10,120 United States4,025
2,828 Germany3,787
Countries with hundreds of Foerster:
10,196 Canada395
5,008 Israel237
33,133 Brazil231
48,512 France208
76,894 Thailand161
32,854 Poland143
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
15,555 Austria78
20,954 Belgium77
13,535 Switzerland59
51,982 Argentina55
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
46,687 Australia39
66,012 England36
43,532 Czechia29
153,425 Philippines27
32,003 Sweden22
62,169 Netherlands19
18,211 Singapore13
7,036 Paraguay13
23,887 Chile13
72,236 Spain12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
55,549 Norway6
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Immigrants to US

From Germany

24 years old farmer Joseph Foerster who was residing in Germany migrated to USA on June 22, 1852 by Vorwarts put out from Bremen. Adolph Foerster, aged 28, Elisabeth Foerster (29) Shoemaker, Fritz Foerster, aged 7, 9 months old Otto Foerster, Carl Foerster (13) Farmer, Catharine Foerster, aged 15, Conrad Foerster (10), Farmer Fritz Foerster, 8 years old Henry Foerster, and 622 other Foerster around 37.95% of whom were farmer while others worked as shoemaker and weaver, laborer, carpenter, tailor, saddler, butcher, mechanic, daughter, gardener, baker, painter, mason, clerk, merchant, seamstress, smith, miller, servant, joiner, engineer, undefined code, locksmith, tourist migrated to US.

Foerster Namesakes

  • Wilhelm Julius Foerster, German astronomer
  • Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and neurosurgeon,
  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer of classical music and musicologist
  • Heinz von Foerster, Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy
  • Paul Foerster, American Olympic medalist in sailing
  • Richard Foerster, American poet and the author of seven collections

Foerster Namesakes

  • Wilhelm Julius Foerster, German astronomer
  • Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and neurosurgeon,
  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer of classical music and musicologist
  • Heinz von Foerster, Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy
  • Paul Foerster, American Olympic medalist in sailing
  • Richard Foerster, American poet and the author of seven collections

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