girls:
1k births since 1887
#4685 (18th percentile)
boys:
52k births since 1880
#487 (89th percentile)
overall:
53k births since 1880
#1045 (87th percentile)
The name Forrest is the #1,045 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,008 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #487 (89.4% percentile) for all time with 51,977 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,685 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 1,031 births since 1887.
Forrest has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1887 for girls).
The name Forrest has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Forrest reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 72.3% percentile (ranked #216) with 659 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 737 births per million (ranked 59.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Forrest ranks #392 for boys (57.0% percentile) with 402 births per million, which is 54.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Forrest reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #812) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 50 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Forrest ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 24.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Forrest".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Forrest. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.2% confident that Forrest is pronounced as FAW-ruhst, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FAW-rihst, at 32.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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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