The surname Laforest
A French surname, carried by 1,977 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L162
Origin
French origin
French surname, from Old French la (“the”) + forest (“forest”). Also from several places in France called Laforest or La Forest, of the same meaning.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,977 people named Laforest in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,169 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,822.
Who is named Laforest
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Laforest identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Laforest has the Soundex code L162, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L162.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Laforest come from?
- French surname, from Old French la (“the”) + forest (“forest”). Also from several places in France called Laforest or La Forest, of the same meaning.
- How common is the surname Laforest?
- 1,977 people in the United States had the surname Laforest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,169 Americans. It ranked 14,957th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Laforest?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Laforest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Laforest getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,822 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,977 in 2010, up 8.5%.