Forsythe Family History
Forsythe Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Forsythe Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Forsythe families
 122 - 242  41 - 121 |
 1 - 40  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Forsythe families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Forsythe families
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9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Forsythe Family Origin
Forsythe Immigration Information
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Forsythe Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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