Forget
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: To lose remembrance of
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɔʀʒɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forget is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 15K
- MUMauritius≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To lose remembrance of.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Forget is read(measured from records)
Forget is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French59%
dérivé de Ferreolus, ou altération de Froget, du germanique Frodgāri.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English35%
To lose remembrance of.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
v., forgetfulness, ndéma = léma
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forget counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 594 | Forget | 254 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Forget | 149 |
| US United States | — | 931 | 1 in 357K | 1.1K | Forget | 129 |
| BE Belgium | — | 319 | 1 in 37K | 319 | Forget | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Forget | 23 |
| MU Mauritius | #584 | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Forget | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Forget is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ahantzi
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amédée E. Forgetb. 1847CACanadian politician (1847–1923)
- Pierre Forgetb. 1929FRFrench actor (1929-1993)
- Claude Forgetb. 1936CACanadian politician and economist (born 1936)
- Michel Forgetb. 1942CACanadian actor
- Guy Forgetb. 1965FRFrench tennis player
- Yann Forgetb. 1965FRFrench project manager, translator and computer scientist
- Maud Forgetb. 1982FRFrench actress
- Joachim Son-Forgetb. 1983CHFrench radiologist and politician
- Marc Forgetactor
- Bruno Forgetactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 945 | #24,744 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 931 | #26,243 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 796 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 796 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 721 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 718 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 675 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 595 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 594 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 530 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 490 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Forget mean, and where does it come from?
- To lose remembrance of. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Forget?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔʀʒɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Forget have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Forget in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forget.
- How common is the name Forget?
- In the United States, the national register counted 931 people named Forget in 2010, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
- How common is Forget compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Forget is the 584th most common surname of 1,496 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forgetThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Forget” — the 584th most common surname in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.