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Forester, through one documented English surname route.
The exact Foster entry documents a given name transferred from the surname and a link to Forster. Forster includes an English occupational route from forester, alongside other surname histories. This explanation describes that forest-related route, rather than a universal meaning for every bearer.
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| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 15 · preliminary | 1500 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 4 | 4275 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Girls | 14 | 7491 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 264 | 901 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
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The exact Foster entry documents a given name transferred from the surname and a link to Forster. Forster includes an English occupational route from forester, alongside other surname histories. This explanation describes that forest-related route, rather than a universal meaning for every bearer. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Foster and Forster entries at the cited revisions. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Foster&oldid=92133532; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Forster&oldid=92985106. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the explicit surname-to-given-name chain and retained the scope of the occupational gloss. No source passages, images or audio reproduced.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
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Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
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Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
