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Forrest

in Pennsylvania

There are 740 people with the last name "Forrest" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

NameRank
Forrest 1,627
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  1. is 1,623rd most common Kozak
  2. is 1,624th most common Whitfield
  3. is 1,625th most common Cleary
  4. is 1,626th most common Cooley
  5. is 1,627th most common Forrest
  6. is 1,628th most common Frick
  7. is 1,629th most common Scanlon
  8. is 1,630th most common Shirley
  9. is 1,631st most common Dell

Most Common First Names for Forrest

David, Robert, William, James, John, Mary, Joseph, Mark, Michael, Brian

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 Pennsylvania

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David Forrest, PA (9 searches)
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