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How popular is “Lester” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lester” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lester” 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 “Lester” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lester” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lester” 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 109 0.000540986 109 -100%
1881 87 0.000451507 87 -100%
1882 134 0.000604876 134 -100%
1883 116 0.000534695 116 -100%
1884 123 0.000505214 123 -100%
1885 141 0.000585417 141 -100%
1886 166 0.000650175 6 160 -93%
1887 168 0.000679084 168 -100%
1888 189 0.000631107 189 -100%
1889 218 0.000754466 5 213 -95%
1890 231 0.000766421 5 226 -96%
1891 191 0.000666264 191 -100%
1892 250 0.000747666 10 240 -92%
1893 248 0.000762554 5 243 -96%
1894 291 0.000859193 291 -100%
1895 300 0.000854652 5 295 -97%
1896 326 0.000911929 8 318 -95%
1897 318 0.00091654 8 310 -95%
1898 307 0.000804813 9 298 -94%
1899 300 0.000884345 10 290 -93%
1900 441 0.000979438 10 431 -95%
1901 338 0.00097741 6 332 -96%
1902 398 0.001029134 13 385 -93%
1903 408 0.001070304 8 400 -96%
1904 409 0.001013668 11 398 -95%
1905 450 0.001061516 18 432 -92%
1906 488 0.001138987 6 482 -98%
1907 500 0.001074368 9 491 -96%
1908 522 0.001068251 13 509 -95%
1909 511 0.000999562 10 501 -96%
1910 566 0.000958167 10 556 -96%
1911 664 0.001030611 7 657 -98%
1912 1463 0.001480676 20 1443 -97%
1913 1753 0.001541627 17 1736 -98%
1914 2176 0.00153635 12 2164 -99%
1915 2971 0.001621348 28 2943 -98%
1916 2930 0.001514668 23 2907 -98%
1917 2889 0.001439641 35 2854 -98%
1918 3265 0.001503838 36 3229 -98%
1919 3055 0.001447699 35 3020 -98%
1920 3101 0.001370521 33 3068 -98%
1921 3109 0.00133176 33 3076 -98%
1922 2988 0.001305285 37 2951 -98%
1923 2801 0.001216514 36 2765 -97%
1924 2814 0.001181554 34 2780 -98%
1925 2581 0.001106158 22 2559 -98%
1926 2570 0.001119384 31 2539 -98%
1927 2480 0.001069261 40 2440 -97%
1928 2262 0.00100047 33 2229 -97%
1929 2136 0.000974381 30 2106 -97%
1930 2044 0.000919359 24 2020 -98%
1931 1943 0.000923309 24 1919 -98%
1932 1831 0.000867242 18 1813 -98%
1933 1663 0.00083173 19 1644 -98%
1934 1705 0.000820968 18 1687 -98%
1935 1644 0.000786641 18 1626 -98%
1936 1563 0.000752318 17 1546 -98%
1937 1588 0.000745305 12 1576 -98%
1938 1622 0.000733083 18 1604 -98%
1939 1561 0.000708437 12 1549 -98%
1940 1610 0.000699184 19 1591 -98%
1941 1579 0.000648081 16 1563 -98%
1942 1763 0.000645358 14 1749 -98%
1943 1784 0.000632051 20 1764 -98%
1944 1663 0.000618197 13 1650 -98%
1945 1631 0.000614797 13 1618 -98%
1946 1679 0.000525458 10 1669 -99%
1947 1959 0.000543816 15 1944 -98%
1948 1795 0.00051991 13 1782 -99%
1949 1766 0.000506776 15 1751 -98%
1950 1774 0.000506371 14 1760 -98%
1951 1734 0.000470717 13 1721 -99%
1952 1744 0.000459188 20 1724 -98%
1953 1792 0.000465014 16 1776 -98%
1954 1776 0.000446152 17 1759 -98%
1955 1706 0.000424898 15 1691 -98%
1956 1716 0.000416198 14 1702 -98%
1957 1645 0.000391467 9 1636 -99%
1958 1480 0.000358015 14 1466 -98%
1959 1350 0.000324676 15 1335 -98%
1960 1328 0.000319706 12 1316 -98%
1961 1297 0.000313111 12 1285 -98%
1962 1124 0.000278537 8 1116 -99%
1963 1117 0.000282199 16 1101 -97%
1964 1012 0.000260315 13 999 -97%
1965 964 0.000265898 8 956 -98%
1966 779 0.00022413 8 771 -98%
1967 739 0.00021768 8 731 -98%
1968 747 0.00022111 747 -100%
1969 727 0.000209189 9 718 -98%
1970 689 0.000191043 9 680 -97%
1971 632 0.00018413 632 -100%
1972 596 0.000189628 7 589 -98%
1973 509 0.000168717 5 504 -98%
1974 471 0.000154934 471 -100%
1975 497 0.000164603 497 -100%
1976 481 0.000158521 6 475 -98%
1977 460 0.000144814 7 453 -97%
1978 392 0.000123509 5 387 -97%
1979 429 0.000128945 7 422 -97%
1980 472 0.00013703 6 466 -97%
1981 437 0.000126323 437 -100%
1982 400 0.000114026 400 -100%
1983 399 0.000115207 399 -100%
1984 351 0.000100609 5 346 -97%
1985 327 0.000091619 6 321 -96%
1986 302 0.000084901 302 -100%
1987 277 0.000076825 277 -100%
1988 309 0.000083626 309 -100%
1989 314 0.000081676 314 -100%
1990 260 0.000065782 260 -100%
1991 287 0.000073679 287 -100%
1992 251 0.000065343 251 -100%
1993 252 0.000066839 252 -100%
1994 207 0.00005568 207 -100%
1995 179 0.000048878 179 -100%
1996 172 0.00004716 172 -100%
1997 166 0.000045784 166 -100%
1998 133 0.000036159 133 -100%
1999 173 0.000046834 173 -100%
2000 144 0.000038096 144 -100%
2001 142 0.000037934 142 -100%
2002 139 0.000037183 139 -100%
2003 148 0.000038924 148 -100%
2004 137 0.000035855 137 -100%
2005 127 0.000033031 127 -100%
2006 146 0.000036904 146 -100%
2007 119 0.000029767 119 -100%
2008 142 0.000036126 142 -100%
2009 127 0.000033245 127 -100%
2010 118 0.000031929 118 -100%
2011 102 0.000027886 102 -100%
2012 104 0.000028436 104 -100%
2013 125 0.000034287 125 -100%
2014 106 0.000028599 106 -100%
2015 104 0.000028101 104 -100%
2016 105 0.000028621 105 -100%
2017 87 0.000024328 87 -100%
2018 93 0.000026451 93 -100%
2019 100 0.000028811 100 -100%
2020 109 0.000032629 109 -100%
2021 109 0.000032173 109 -100%
2022 94 0.000027785 94 -100%
2023 82 0.000024764 82 -100%
2024 109 0.000032747 109 -100%

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