girls:
12 births since 1922
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
310 births since 1914
#4276 (7th percentile)
overall:
322 births since 1914
#7417 (4th percentile)
The name Elester is the #7,417 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 322 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,276 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 310 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1922.
Elester first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Elester is available in 40 out of the 66 years between 1914 and 1979 (40 years for boys and 2 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 Elester has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elester reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #535) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
For girls, Elester reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elester".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Elester. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.7% confident that Elester is pronounced as eh-LEH-ster, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-leh-ster, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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