Fosters: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Fosters is usually a form of Foster. Its meaning, shared with Foster, is “Forester”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Fosters adds a patronymic ending to Foster, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.
• Related forms: Forster and Forrester.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Fosters, so the heraldry linked to Foster is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Fosters surname pack.