Home>Name Popularity>Last Names>F>Foro-Forr>Forrest>New Jersey

Forrest

in New Jersey

There are 455 people with the last name "Forrest" in New Jersey.

Add to web page

Ranking in New Jersey

NameRank
Forrest 1,639
close
  1. is 1,635th most common Reis
  2. is 1,636th most common Somers
  3. is 1,637th most common Mohamed
  4. is 1,638th most common Brock
  5. is 1,639th most common Forrest
  6. is 1,640th most common Gottlieb
  7. is 1,641st most common Massa
  8. is 1,642nd most common Mccaffrey
  9. is 1,643rd most common Ordonez

Most Common First Names for Forrest

John, Robert, Michael, William, Jeffrey, Jennifer, Ronald, Laura, Mark, Steven

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 New Jersey

Since May 2009
182

Most Popular Search

John Forrest, NJ (9 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages. (nv1)

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