girls:
31 births since 1924
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
158 births since 1913
#4428 (3rd percentile)
overall:
189 births since 1913
#7550 (2nd percentile)
The name Clester is the #7,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,428 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 158 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1924.
Clester first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Clester is available in 25 out of the 55 years between 1913 and 1967 (24 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Clester has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 1967, 100.0% of babies named Clester were boys.
For boys, Clester reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #528) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 17 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1967.
For girls, Clester reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #611) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clester".
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