Foster

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname

1) From Middle English foster = 'foster parent', nurse'

2) Short form of Middle English forester = 'officer in charge of a forest' or 'employed in the forest'

3) Short form of forseter = 'shearer'

3) Variant form fewster, from Old French fustier = 'saddle-tree maker'

Related Names

Foster

♂

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Foster
Genitive:	Fosters

- Finnish
Nominative:	Foster
Genitive:	Fosterin
Partitive:	Fosteria

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Foster
Genitive:	Fosters

- Swedish
Nominative:	Foster
Genitive:	Fosters

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		4	14	0	4	4	10
Denmark		3	n.a.	0	n.a.	3	n.a.
Finland		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.