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forsythe Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of forsythe Families in the US in 1920
Number of forsythe families
 122-242
 41-121		 1-40
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