Forrer is used as a family name or surname in Switzerland. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Forrer
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Switzerland
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Forrer

How popular is Forrer?

Forrer is common in Switzerland.

Forrer is ranked 129480 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Forrers plummeted by 0.5610098 per cent to 709 since 2000 and slipped by 1607 spots and ranked at 32438. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 96.76 96.07
Hispanic or Latino 1.69 2.38
Black 0.71 0
Forrer is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Switzerland which may be its originating country too. Around 3044 people have been found who wears Forrer as their family name. Forrer is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
28,661 Serbia8
2,236 El Salvador3
82,478 South Africa2
213 Liechtenstein2
118,441 Germany2
16,640 Hong Kong1
31,207 Ireland1
49,101 Denmark1
120,357 Argentina1
174,544 Czech Republic1
34,581 Chile1
25,721 Egypt1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
43,662 Belgium30
21,268 New Zealand21
377,825 Russia17
94,038 Spain11
411,400 Indonesia11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
67,110 Italy90
27,919 Australia84
53,069 England70
53,461 Canada57
Countries with hundreds of Forrer:
33,354 United States870
42,934 France233
52,914 Brazil191
15,632 Netherlands177
12,545 Austria105
Countries with thousands of Forrer:
795 Switzerland1,053
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Comments

T
Tobie Tardy
A variation born in eastern France from the old nickname given to a steward could present a track to explain the origin of this name from the old French forreurs, provision, as in this excerpt from a dictionary old: and asses you bread and wine and forruere, sheep, vac h es fs and drank another possibility: a form of the surname forner former Alsatian or Lorraine nickname peasant who lived near a moor where the fern grows abundantly notice also the existence of an ancient Hungarian city of forro name, without that we can make a relationship with the French last name surname Forrer, rare in France, is carried by 38 households, or just over a hundred people, mostly in Alsace and Lorraine.

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