Forest
Forest is ranked 724th among boys in 2024 (361 births). Its best rank was 223rd, in 1893, 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- #724up 22 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3610.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2022375 births
- Best rank
- #223first in 1893
- Since 1880
- 18,013people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,433 boys have been named Forest in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 375 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 580 girls have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Forest | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 298 | |
| 1890s | 470 | |
| 1900s | 541 | |
| 1910s | 2,125 | |
| 1920s | 2,562 | |
| 1930s | 1,493 | |
| 1940s | 1,276 | |
| 1950s | 1,037 | |
| 1960s | 779 | |
| 1970s | 758 | |
| 1980s | 787 | |
| 1990s | 1,467 | |
| 2000s | 657 | |
| 2010s | 1,448 | |
| 2020s | 1,735 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Forest was the 703rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Forest
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Noblepeak 1920
- Fosterpeak 2023
- Evanspeak 2024
- Crawfordpeak 1924
- Levypeak 2021
- Valentinepeak 1918
- Orenpeak 2021
- Tillmanpeak 1917
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.