Forrest
21,977 people in the United States were counted with the surname Forrest in the 2020 census, making it the 1,593rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 21,977
- Rank
- 1,593rd
- How common
- 1 in 13,600
- Per 100,000
- 7.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Middle English
English surname, from the noun forest. Also adopted and translated from the word for "forest" in various other languages by settlers.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Forrest described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Forrest
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877)Confederate States Army general
- Frederic Forrest (1936–2023)American actor
- James Forrest (born 1991)Scottish association football player
- Steve Forrest (1925–2013)American actor
- John Forrest (1847–1918)Australian explorer and politician
- George Forrest (1873–1932)Scottish botanist
- Steve Forrest (born 1986)American drummer
- Sally Forrest (1928–2015)American actress
People named Forrest with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Forrest
Also a first name
Forrest has been given to 54,697 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1994. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.