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Origin Of The Surname Forbes
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Meaning Of The Surname Forbes
From the Town by the Field
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Interesting
Facts About
Forbes
Forbes is a locational surname of Gaelic origin, and comes from Scotland. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic ‘forba’ meaning field. |
Forbes Statistics
Forbes is the number 1348 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,812 share the surname Forbes in the UK.
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