How popular is “Chester” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chester” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chester” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Chester” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Chester” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Chester” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Chester” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chester” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	168	0.000833813		168	-100%
1881	274	0.001421988		274	-100%
1882	300	0.0013542		300	-100%
1883	290	0.001336738		290	-100%
1884	338	0.001388313		338	-100%
1885	273	0.001133467		273	-100%
1886	287	0.001124097		287	-100%
1887	207	0.000836729		207	-100%
1888	288	0.000961686		288	-100%
1889	274	0.000948274		274	-100%
1890	263	0.000872592		263	-100%
1891	252	0.00087905		252	-100%
1892	285	0.000852339		285	-100%
1893	291	0.000894771		291	-100%
1894	330	0.000974342	5	325	-97%
1895	377	0.001074013		377	-100%
1896	336	0.000939902	7	329	-96%
1897	290	0.000835838		290	-100%
1898	321	0.000841515		321	-100%
1899	294	0.000866658	6	288	-96%
1900	371	0.000823972	7	364	-96%
1901	253	0.000731611		253	-100%
1902	328	0.00084813	7	321	-96%
1903	336	0.000881427	9	327	-95%
1904	355	0.000879834		355	-100%
1905	388	0.000915263		388	-100%
1906	429	0.001001281	9	420	-96%
1907	424	0.000911064		424	-100%
1908	466	0.00095365	5	461	-98%
1909	480	0.000938923	5	475	-98%
1910	572	0.000968325	11	561	-96%
1911	717	0.001112874	9	708	-97%
1912	1476	0.001493833	16	1460	-98%
1913	1779	0.001564492	14	1765	-98%
1914	2307	0.001628842	18	2289	-98%
1915	3057	0.00166828	14	3043	-99%
1916	3232	0.001670788	20	3212	-99%
1917	3359	0.001673851	21	3338	-99%
1918	3712	0.001709724	20	3692	-99%
1919	3462	0.001640568	30	3432	-98%
1920	3726	0.001646747	28	3698	-98%
1921	3573	0.001530517	24	3549	-99%
1922	3155	0.001378237	22	3133	-99%
1923	3173	0.001378079	23	3150	-99%
1924	3056	0.001283166	23	3033	-98%
1925	2738	0.001173444	19	2719	-99%
1926	2569	0.001118949	35	2534	-97%
1927	2425	0.001045548	18	2407	-99%
1928	2273	0.001005335	30	2243	-97%
1929	1987	0.000906412	18	1969	-98%
1930	1808	0.00081321	17	1791	-98%
1931	1735	0.000824468	18	1717	-98%
1932	1620	0.000767303	13	1607	-98%
1933	1405	0.000702694	6	1399	-99%
1934	1404	0.000676035	19	1385	-97%
1935	1441	0.000689507	9	1432	-99%
1936	1291	0.000621397	13	1278	-98%
1937	1285	0.000603097	13	1272	-98%
1938	1236	0.000558625		1236	-100%
1939	1302	0.000590894	6	1296	-99%
1940	1362	0.000591483	9	1353	-99%
1941	1458	0.000598418	10	1448	-99%
1942	1574	0.000576173	15	1559	-98%
1943	1639	0.000580679	9	1630	-99%
1944	1537	0.000571359	15	1522	-98%
1945	1458	0.000549585	14	1444	-98%
1946	1632	0.000510749	12	1620	-99%
1947	1726	0.000479135	12	1714	-99%
1948	1566	0.000453582	10	1556	-99%
1949	1451	0.000416383	11	1440	-98%
1950	1386	0.00039562	8	1378	-99%
1951	1407	0.000381949	6	1401	-99%
1952	1470	0.000387045	14	1456	-98%
1953	1392	0.000361217	12	1380	-98%
1954	1429	0.000358981	8	1421	-99%
1955	1261	0.000314066	5	1256	-99%
1956	1254	0.000304145		1254	-100%
1957	1195	0.000284379	13	1182	-98%
1958	1057	0.000255691	7	1050	-99%
1959	1007	0.000242184	5	1002	-99%
1960	936	0.000225335		936	-100%
1961	893	0.000215581	5	888	-99%
1962	780	0.000193291	6	774	-98%
1963	732	0.000184933		732	-100%
1964	711	0.000182889		711	-100%
1965	629	0.000173496		629	-100%
1966	543	0.00015623	7	536	-97%
1967	533	0.000157		533	-100%
1968	506	0.000149774	5	501	-98%
1969	544	0.000156532		544	-100%
1970	521	0.000144461	6	515	-98%
1971	508	0.000148003		508	-100%
1972	417	0.000132676	6	411	-97%
1973	422	0.000139879		422	-100%
1974	435	0.000143092	6	429	-97%
1975	355	0.000117573		355	-100%
1976	370	0.000121939		370	-100%
1977	393	0.000123721		393	-100%
1978	378	0.000119098		378	-100%
1979	355	0.000106703		355	-100%
1980	349	0.000101321		349	-100%
1981	349	0.000100885		349	-100%
1982	332	0.000094642		332	-100%
1983	297	0.000085755	5	292	-97%
1984	285	0.000081691		285	-100%
1985	264	0.000073968		264	-100%
1986	220	0.000061849		220	-100%
1987	251	0.000069614		251	-100%
1988	227	0.000061434		227	-100%
1989	228	0.000059306		228	-100%
1990	226	0.000057179		226	-100%
1991	209	0.000053655		209	-100%
1992	203	0.000052847		203	-100%
1993	154	0.000040846		154	-100%
1994	149	0.000040079		149	-100%
1995	145	0.000039594		145	-100%
1996	124	0.000033999		124	-100%
1997	122	0.000033648		122	-100%
1998	117	0.000031809		117	-100%
1999	100	0.000027072		100	-100%
2000	109	0.000028837		109	-100%
2001	81	0.000021638		81	-100%
2002	97	0.000025948		97	-100%
2003	95	0.000024985		95	-100%
2004	89	0.000023293		89	-100%
2005	95	0.000024708		95	-100%
2006	71	0.000017947		71	-100%
2007	81	0.000020262		81	-100%
2008	92	0.000023406		92	-100%
2009	73	0.000019109		73	-100%
2010	74	0.000020023		74	-100%
2011	82	0.000022418		82	-100%
2012	71	0.000019413		71	-100%
2013	78	0.000021395		78	-100%
2014	84	0.000022664		84	-100%
2015	98	0.00002648		98	-100%
2016	76	0.000020716		76	-100%
2017	93	0.000026005		93	-100%
2018	93	0.000026451		93	-100%
2019	91	0.000026218		91	-100%
2020	99	0.000029636		99	-100%
2021	67	0.000019776		67	-100%
2022	94	0.000027785		94	-100%
2023	96	0.000028993		96	-100%
2024	102	0.000030644		102	-100%

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