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The FOREST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,006 6270 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 2,483 2450 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +2523 -3820 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 56 23276 0 3
United Kingdom 257 14095 0.001 6
Top States for FOREST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 436 6435 0.001 13
Massachusetts 365 2463 0.006 57
Florida 362 5534 0.002 23
Louisiana 336 1873 0.008 75
Texas 330 6038 0.002 16
Top States for FOREST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 97 1454 0.012 124
New Hampshire 135 1462 0.011 109
Vermont 55 1943 0.009 90
Louisiana 336 1873 0.008 75
Massachusetts 365 2463 0.006 57

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of FOREST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOREST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FOREST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FOREST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 78 1.56
Mixed Race 74 1.48
Asian/Pacific 37 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.44
White (Caucasian) 3,459 69.1
Black/African American 1,336 26.69

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

Meaning of FOREST in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FOREST.

Similar names to FOREST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOREST.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FOREST

The following words are slight variants of FOREST that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.