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deforest Name Meaning and History

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of deforest Families in the US in 1920
Number of deforest families
 64-125
 22-63
 1-21
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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