Name meaning & stats
Forrest
Forrest means “forest”. 35,978 US babies since 1940, peak 1994.
What it means
“forest”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1994
35,978 US babies were named Forrest between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Forrest (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 77% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1994)