Gender: Mostly Boy
Meaning: Woodsman, forest dweller
Origin: Old French/English
Popularity: Ranked #1074 in 2024 with 202 babies born.
History: Foster surged in the 2010s-2020s as a virtue-adjacent surname-name. Stephen Foster wrote America's most beloved 19th-century songs. Foster represents the American songwriting tradition.
Similar names: forrester
Name length: 6 letters
How common is Foster? About 1 in 14,926 babies born in 2024 were named Foster, or roughly 0.6 per day in the United States.
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