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The forge Surname

forge Name Meaning and History

English and French: topographic name for someone who lived near a forge or smithy, Middle English, Old French forge (from Latin fabrica ‘workshop’, a derivative of faber ‘smith’, ‘workman’; compare Lefevre). The surname is thus in most cases a metonymic occupational name for a smith or someone employed by a smith.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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forge Family Facts

Distribution of forge Families in the US in 1920
Number of forge families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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