The Laforest surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,822 people carried this name — #14,898 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 147,100 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 906 people named Laforest.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 59 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Laforest live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Laforest.
- Lafon 1,531 · U.S. census
- Lafond 3,898 · U.S. census
- Lafont 662 · U.S. census
- Lafontaine 3,497 · U.S. census
- Laforce 1,520 · U.S. census
- Lafore 232 · U.S. census
- Laforet 194 · U.S. census
- Laforge 2,050 · U.S. census
- Lafortune 1,310 · U.S. census
- Lafosse 564 · U.S. census
- Lafoy 417 · U.S. census
- Lafrance 5,211 · U.S. census
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