Forest — #724 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Forest

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,433 babies named Forest between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Forest currently holds the #724 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 375 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Forest performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,562 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Forest shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,269 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Forest in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Forest in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,433 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.