Forbes Family History
Forbes Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Aberdeen, so
named from Gaelic forba ‘field’, ‘district’ + the locative
suffix -ais. The place name is pronounced in two syllables,
with the stress on the second, and the surname until recently
reflected this. Today, however, it is generally a monosyllable.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Firbhisigh
‘son of Fearbhisigh’, a personal name composed of Celtic
elements meaning ‘man’ + ‘prosperity’. A family of this name in
Connacht was famous for its traditional historians, compilers of the
Book of Lecan.
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Name Distribution of Forbes Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forbes families
 217 - 432  73 - 216 |
 1 - 72  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Forbes families
|
290 - 578 97 - 289 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Forbes families
|
910 - 1,817 304 - 909 |
1 - 303 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Forbes Family Origin
Forbes Immigration Information
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Forbes Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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