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Forrest

in North Carolina

There are 976 people with the last name "Forrest" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

NameRank
Forrest 1,141
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  1. is 1,137th most common Lawing
  2. is 1,138th most common Witherspoon
  3. is 1,139th most common Lyon
  4. is 1,140th most common Wilkes
  5. is 1,141st most common Forrest
  6. is 1,142nd most common Foust
  7. is 1,143rd most common Peeler
  8. is 1,144th most common Hawley
  9. is 1,145th most common Swaim

Most Common First Names for Forrest

James, Thomas, William, Michael, John, Mary, Robert, Christopher, David, Elizabeth

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 North Carolina

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James Forrest, NC (9 searches)
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