Laforest Family History
Laforest Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a
royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker
in one, from Old French forest, with the definite article
la. Unlike modern French forêt, forest was not
simply a word for extensive woodland, but referred specifically to
large, partly or mainly wooded areas reserved by law for the king and
his nobles to hunt in.Americanized form of French La
Forêt, a modern spelling of 1, here translated into English
with the article left intact. Compare Lafontaine.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Laforest Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laforest families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Laforest families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Laforest Family Origin
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Laforest Family Occupations
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