Forde
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Forde is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Barbados it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- BBBarbados1 in 177◐
- GYGuyana1 in 697
- IEIreland1 in 5.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.7K ●
- Sources
- 306 ●
- 1 in 390 ◐
across 16 countries
62K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,844 | 5.9K rec. | — | listed | Forde | 151 |
| BB Barbados | #5 | 6,928 | 235 rec. | — | 3.3K | Forde | 58 |
| US United States | — | 5,031 | 45K rec. | 1 in 66K | 5.2K | Forde | 306 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,828 | 3.5K rec. | — | 1 | Forde | 112 |
| IE Ireland | #573 | 1,969 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Forde | 115 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,609 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Forde | 100 |
| GY Guyana | #43 | 1,077 | 997 rec. | 1 in 697 | 1.1K | Forde | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | #260 | 538 | 555 rec. | — | — | Forde | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 394 | 224 rec. | — | — | Forde | 57 |
| DE Germany | — | 261 | 253 rec. | — | — | Forde | 39 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | #58 | 260△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 390 | 260 | Forde | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 75△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 2.8M | 75 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English72K84%
- Spanish2.6K3%
- 1.9K2%
- French8921%
- German7511%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 71,787 | 84% |
| Spanish | 2,562 | 3% |
| 1,933 | 2% | |
| French | 892 | 1% |
| German | 751 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Forde is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, dative singular of ford
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Frank Fordeb. 1890AUAustralian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (1890-1983)
- Walter Fordeb. 1896GBBritish actor and film director (1896-1984)
- Eugene Fordeb. 1898USAmerican film director (1898-1986)
- Margot Bernice Ashwinb. 1935NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand botanist (1935-1992)
- Brinsley Fordeb. 1953GBEnglish actor-musician
- Pat Fordeb. 1965USAmerican sportswriter and announcer
- Jessica Fordeb. 1966GBFrench actress
- Barry Fordeb. 1976BBBarbadian cyclist
- David Fordeb. 1979IEIrish association football player
- Brooke Fordeb. 1999USAmerican 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●
Attested in 35 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Forde?
- We estimate roughly 6.7 thousand people bear Forde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Forde have the most bearers?
- Forde is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled forde.
- How common is Forde compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Forde is the 5th most common surname of 11,288 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Forde” — the 5th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.