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Transferred use of the surname
1) From Middle English foster = 'foster parent', nurse' [1]
2) Short form of Middle English forester = 'officer in charge of a forest' or 'employed in the forest' [1] [2]
3) Short form of forseter = 'shearer' [1]
3) Variant form fewster, from Old French fustier = 'saddle-tree maker' [1]
Foster | ♂ |
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- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Foster |
Genitive: | Fosters |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Foster |
Genitive: | Fosterin |
Partitive: | Fosteria |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Foster |
Genitive: | Fosters |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Foster |
Genitive: | Fosters |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
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4 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
Denmark[4] |
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3 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
3 | n.a. |
Finland[5] |
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n.a. |
6 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
6 |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Foster.