About the name Forest
Forest belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Forest first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #223 in 1893, and in 2024 361 babies received the name — 17,433 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.