Forrester

Forrester is the 2,668th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,209 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,209
Rank: 2,668th
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Forrester described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016)American operations researcher
Patrick Forrester (born 1957)United States Army officer and NASA astronaut
Maureen Forrester (1930–2010)Canadian operatic contralto
Bill Forrester (born 1957)American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Nicole Forrester (born 1976)Canadian high jumper and academic
Harry Forrester (born 1991)English association football player

People named Forrester with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Forrester

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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.