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Forrest

in Nebraska

There are 62 people with the last name "Forrest" in Nebraska.

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Ranking in Nebraska

NameRank
Forrest 3,519
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  1. is 3,515th most common Eberly
  2. is 3,516th most common Engstrom
  3. is 3,517th most common Felix
  4. is 3,518th most common Ficke
  5. is 3,519th most common Forrest
  6. is 3,520th most common Forsberg
  7. is 3,521st most common Franssen
  8. is 3,522nd most common Franzluebbers
  9. is 3,523rd most common Garvey

Most Common First Names for Forrest

Thomas, Benjamin, Bradley, Charles, James, Joyce, Linda, Mitchell, Sean, Alice

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 Nebraska

Since January 2009
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Thomas Forrest, NE (6 searches)
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