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How popular is the name Forest?
Births per year, rank history and how many Forests are alive today.
Forest (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 856th in 2025 with 37 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2023, when 69 babies were given the name, the 550th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Forest you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Forests born in England and Wales are between 3 and 8, and there are at least 450 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Forest - on average, only one in every 674 such rooms contains a Forest.
How many babies are named Forest each year?
Where does Forest rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Forest most popular?
Forest peaked in 2023, when 69 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Forest?
At least 450 people named Forest born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Forest?
Most living Forests are between 3 and 8; the most common age is about 4.
Is Forest becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.