Boy
Foster
Foster is a boy's name, a distinctive, less common pick, that has stayed remarkably steady since peaking in the 1920s.
Middle EnglishMiddle English occupational surname
Etymology"Forester" or "foster parent"
Births by decade
1900s
343
1910s
1,411
1920s
1,660
1930s
1,040
1940s
1,070
1950s
758
1960s
476
1970s
359
1980s
360
1990s
872
2000s
1,009
2010s
1,549
Peaked in the 1920s · 10,907 total U.S. births since 1900