Forester
#12,635 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Forester has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #12,635 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1932, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Forester, 2025
1 in 663,000
Forester over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Forester?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,635
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Forester sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Forester. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Foresters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Forester was born before 1954 — so the typical Forester is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 24.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Forester rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,510
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 1932 (7)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Forester
Forester is not the most common spelling — Forest is, with 57.5% against Forester's 0.15%.
Forester by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Forester
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Forester
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.