girls:
828 births since 1894
#4888 (14th percentile)
boys:
121.3k births since 1880
#268 (94th percentile)
overall:
122.1k births since 1880
#593 (92nd percentile)
The name Chester is the #593 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122,090 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #268 (94.2% percentile) for all time with 121,262 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,888 (14.5% percentile) for all time with 828 births since 1894.
Chester has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1894 for girls).
The name Chester has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Chester reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 90.3% percentile (ranked #53) with 3,380 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 3,521 births per million (ranked 90.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Chester ranks #822 for boys (9.8% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Chester reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #574) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 32 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chester".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Chester. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Chester is pronounced as CHEH-ster, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like CH EH1 S T ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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