as a Last Name
- 2,998
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Foran
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fuartháin ‘descendant of Fuarthán ’, a personal name derived from fuar ‘cold’. (The word fuarán also means ‘spring’ or ‘pool’.) The form Fuarthán was understood as fuarathán ‘cold little ford’, and the name has thus sometimes been translated as Ford.
| 9,308th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,998
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Foran per capita
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