girls:
561 births since 1890
#5155 (10th percentile)
boys:
17.1k births since 1880
#882 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.6k births since 1880
#1943 (75th percentile)
The name Forest is the #1,943 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,627 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #882 (80.8% percentile) for all time with 17,066 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,155 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 561 births since 1890.
Forest has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls).
The name Forest has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.8% of babies named Forest were boys.
For boys, Forest reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 46.5% percentile (ranked #269) with 325 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 487 births per million (ranked 24.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Forest ranks #589 for boys (35.4% percentile) with 190 births per million, which is 39.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Forest reached its peak popularity in 1897, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #316) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 60 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Forest ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 21.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Forest".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Forrest. View all variations of Forrest.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Forest", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Forrest" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Forrest..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Forest. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.6% confident that Forest is pronounced as FAW-ruhst, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FAW-rihst, at 30.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like F AO1 R AH0 S T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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