Home>Name Popularity>Last Names>F>Foro-Forr>Forrest>California

Forrest

in California

There are 1,461 people with the last name "Forrest" in California.

Add to web page

Ranking in California

NameRank
Forrest 1,921
close
  1. is 1,917th most common Connor
  2. is 1,918th most common Caldera
  3. is 1,919th most common Ferrell
  4. is 1,920th most common Kurtz
  5. is 1,921st most common Forrest
  6. is 1,922nd most common Hackett
  7. is 1,923rd most common Borja
  8. is 1,924th most common Cadena
  9. is 1,925th most common Biggs

Most Common First Names for Forrest

Robert, David, William, Michael, James, John, Richard, Mary, Charles

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English forest was not, as today, a near-synonym of wood, but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Old French forest, Late Latin forestis (silva). This is generally taken to be a derivative of foris ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a habitation. On the other hand, Middle High German for(e)st has been held to be a derivative of Old High German foraha ‘fir’ (see Forster), with the addition of a collective suffix.

Recent Searches for "Forrest" in California

Since June 2009
491

Most Popular Search

Robert Forrest, CA (9 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages. (nv3)

© 2009 WhitePages Inc. - Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use and Privacy Statement