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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Dutch : habitational name, with the preposition de ‘from’, for someone from a place named Forest, for example in Nord and Somme. The place name is derived from Old French forest ‘forest’.
  • The name De Foreest is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.

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