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Lester

Pronounced /ˈlɛstɚ/

Rank in 2024
#1,580
Born in 2024
109
Peak year
1918 · #62
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 109 boys were named Lester, about 1 in every 15,737.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 3,229 babies, ranked #62.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 130,579 boys have been named Lester since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 2.8
    Greatest
  2. 1.5
    Silent
  3. 0.8
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 47,617 babies, 2.85 per 1,000. Silent: 31,254 babies, 1.51 per 1,000. Boomers: 29,533 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Gen X: 9,499 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,713 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,167 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,223 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English surname, from the placename Leicester. Also as an English surname of Norman origin, from Lestre in Normandy, from Old French Lestra, from Medieval Latin Laxtra, perhaps from extera (“exterior (part of a property)”). As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Lister. Also as an English surname, variant of Laster. As a Scottish and Irish surname, shortened from McLester.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Lester, CC BY-SA 4.0.