Deforest
Where Deforest comes from
Rare French surname, from de (“from”) + forest. Compare Deforrest, Defrees, Defreest.
Deforest through the years
- 1881Debut at its peak, #595#595 among boys with 9 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1882The fadeThe 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 recognized namesakes for Deforest in Wikidata.
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.