The DEFOREST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,664	10956	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	724	7181	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+1940	-3775	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	5	32209	0	0

Top States for DEFOREST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	340	5667	0.002	18
Michigan	275	4324	0.003	28
California	267	9741	0.001	8
Texas	172	10080	0.001	8
Florida	144	12267	0.001	9
Top States for DEFOREST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	83	4031	0.003	31
North Dakota	19	5732	0.003	30
Oregon	99	4379	0.003	29
Michigan	275	4324	0.003	28
New Hampshire	25	6164	0.002	20

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DEFOREST live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DEFOREST represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DEFOREST in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DEFOREST by picking someone at random in Kansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DEFOREST

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DEFOREST surname.

Ethnic distribution of DEFOREST in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	58	2.18
Mixed Race	39	1.46
Black/African American	33	1.24
Asian/Pacific	20	0.75
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.49
White (Caucasian)	2,501	93.88

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DEFOREST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

DEFOREST is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to DEFOREST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEFOREST.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.