Deforest

Where Deforest comes from

Rare French surname, from de (“from”) + forest. Compare Deforrest, Defrees, Defreest.
— Wiktionary's entry for Deforest
Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #595
    #595 among boys with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.
Namesakes

No widely known Deforest turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.