Foran Family History
Foran Name Meaning
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.See Forand.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Foran
Name Distribution of Foran Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Foran families
 62 - 122  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Foran families
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35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foran families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Foran Family Origin
Foran Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Foran
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Foran Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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