How Many People Are Named Forest?
people named Forest are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 36,309 people in the US has this name
Based on 18,377 babies named Forest in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
ππ Very Rare
Peak Year
391 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
π Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of FORREST, or else directly from the English word forest.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Forest in English. Counting Forest and these spellings together, about 40,546 people alive in the US have the name.
β§ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Forest, 3.1% were girls and 96.9% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 4.5% in the 2020s.
π₯ Age Distribution
The average person named Forest alive today is about 32 years old, and 50% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 52 in 2025.
π Popularity Over Time
Forest first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2022, to 391 babies. In 2025, 356 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
π Rank History
Forest has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #223, in 1893 and 1898. In 2025 it ranked #750.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #750 |
| Best rank | #223 (1893 and 1898) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #370 in the 1920s |
π State-Wise Distribution
People named Forest alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Forest were born in California than in any other state: about 1,152 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Forest was given 3 times as often in Kentucky, 3 times in West Virginia and 2.9 times in Oregon.
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