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Chester

Pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɛ.stɚ/

Rank in 2024
#1,656
Born in 2024
102
Peak year
1920 · #55
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 102 boys were named Chester, about 1 in every 16,817.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 3,698 babies, ranked #55.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 121,369 boys have been named Chester since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Chester per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.1
    Greatest
  2. 1.3
    Silent
  3. 0.6
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 51,147 babies, 3.06 per 1,000. Silent: 27,581 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Boomers: 23,151 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,228 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,658 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,449 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,071 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Chestre, from Old English Ċeaster, from ċeaster (“a town or city, especially a Roman one”). The village in Nova Scotia is likely named after the city in Pennsylvania. ==== Proper noun ==== Chester (countable and uncountable, plural Chesters) A placename. A city, the county town of Cheshire, in northwest England. A district municipality and village therein, in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [From 1760] A rural municipality in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chester No. 125.

  • (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Chester, CC BY-SA 4.0.