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Foster

Rank in 2024
#1,076
Born in 2024
202
Peak year
2023 · #968
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 202 boys were named Foster, about 1 in every 8,492.
  • It peaked in 2023 with 232 babies, ranked #968.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 12,858 boys have been named Foster since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Foster per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,137 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 1,898 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,474 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 584 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 847 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,741 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,556 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

English surname, reduced from Forster; also from the noun foster.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Foster, CC BY-SA 4.0.