Forest Names
Forest names can name a tree directly or reach the woodland through another language or a surname. This selection focuses on wooded landscapes and their plants, with the connection identified for every name.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The tree supplies the connection. | 6,318#21 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
The evergreen shrub or tree supplies the connection. | 751#416 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 1983 | ||
The surname comes from places associated with ash trees. | 1,801#197 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
The climbing plant gives this a woodland association. | 5,117#39 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
A surname spelling of the forest-associated name. | 850#374 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
The rowan tree supplies a woodland association. | 5,212#59 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The woodland plant gives this a botanical connection. | 186#1,220 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
The tree with trembling leaves supplies the connection. | 1,179#266 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The evergreen shrub or small tree supplies the name. | 2,618#100 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A surname name with an elder-tree woodland association. | 81#1,921 | Up 934 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The wooded landscape itself supplies this word name. | 344#750 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The surname has a holly-tree association. | 266#894 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The surname has an oak-clearing connection. | 1,933#156 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Forest of Arden supplies a literary landscape association. | 225#1,005 | Up 148 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The thorny plant supplies an undergrowth connection. | 778#400 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The tree gives this a direct woodland connection. | 129#1,415 | Up 134 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The evergreen tree supplies the name. | 160#1,244 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The tree gives this a compact woodland connection. | 175#1,177 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The Cornish elm word gives this a woodland connection. | 341#798 | Up 548 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The tree supplies this direct woodland connection. | 130#1,402 | Up 341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The tree itself supplies this compact name. | 59#2,344 | Up 567 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The pale-barked tree gives this a direct woodland image. | 5#12,290 | Down 4,706 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
A small group of trees supplies this woodland word name. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
The flowering tree gives this a woodland-edge association. | 10#7,862 | Up 1,151 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.