The Foret surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,683 people carried this name — #10,888 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 101,000 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 2,108 people named Foret.
24 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 84 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 149 people named Foret live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
30 people named Foret live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Foret.
- Ford 178,397 · U.S. census
- Fore 5,840 · U.S. census
- Fores 192 · U.S. census
- Forest 5,006 · U.S. census
- Forestier 383 · U.S. census
- Forestieri 183 · U.S. census
- Forey 248 · U.S. census
- Forgas 181 · U.S. census
- Forge 574 · U.S. census
- Forges 193 · U.S. census
- Forget 945 · U.S. census
- Forgit 144 · U.S. census
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