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Forrest

in New Mexico

There are 98 people with the last name "Forrest" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Forrest 1,627
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  1. is 1,623rd most common Briones
  2. is 1,624th most common Burks
  3. is 1,625th most common Dwyer
  4. is 1,626th most common Flanagan
  5. is 1,627th most common Forrest
  6. is 1,628th most common Garay
  7. is 1,629th most common Gibbons
  8. is 1,630th most common Lott
  9. is 1,631st most common Luevano

Most Common First Names for Forrest

Robert, Stephanie, Alvin, Barbara, Betty, Beverly, Bruce, Carla, David, Dick

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 Mexico

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Robert Forrest, NM (6 searches)
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