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foster Name Meaning and History

  1. English: reduced form of Forster.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fostre, a derivative of fostrian ‘to nourish or rear’).
  3. Jewish: probably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames, such as Forster.

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

Distribution of foster Families in the US in 1920
Number of foster families
 1153-2304
 385-1152		 1-384
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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