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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Forbes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
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 Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Forbes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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