How rare is the last name Forrester?

13,209 people in the United States have the last name Forrester, about 1 in 22,628. It ranks #2,668 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

FORRESTER

#2,668

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,209
About
1 in 22,628
This common or more
51.2%
Who bears it

Of the 13,209 people with the last name Forrester, 79.8% reported their origin as White, 12.4% as Black and 3.6% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Forrester

#2,665 Ivy · 13,218#2,667 Kaminski · 13,215#2,669 Woo · 13,207#2,670 Yancey · 13,201

Spelled almost the same

8 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Forrester, most common first.

#1,593 Forrest · 21,977#3,993 Forster · 8,627#6,865 Forester · 4,717#11,914 Foerster · 2,511#52,802 Forestier · 424#54,978 Forrister · 404#60,172 Forister · 362#62,349 Forrestal · 347

Also a first name

As a first name, Forrester ranks #36,519 of 53,615, with 217 people. See Forrester as a first name

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