as a Last Name
- 12,869
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Forsythe
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + sith ‘peace’. Some early forms with prepositions, as for example William de Fersith (Edinburgh 1365), seem to point to an alternative origin as a habitational name, but no place name of suitable form is known. The spelling Forsythe is associated chiefly with northern Ireland.
| 2,824th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,869
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Forsythe per capita
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