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Forrest

in New York

There are 860 people with the last name "Forrest" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Forrest 1,794
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  1. is 1,790th most common Fredericks
  2. is 1,791st most common Neumann
  3. is 1,792nd most common Woo
  4. is 1,793rd most common Baer
  5. is 1,794th most common Forrest
  6. is 1,795th most common Frias
  7. is 1,796th most common Barney
  8. is 1,797th most common Jankowski
  9. is 1,798th most common Pickett

Most Common First Names for Forrest

Robert, John, James, William, Michael, Thomas, David, Nancy, Kenneth, Mary

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 York

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Robert Forrest, NY (9 searches)
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