girls:
662 births since 1894
#5054 (12th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1882
#2496 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1882
#4799 (38th percentile)
The name Vester is the #4,799 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,228 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 38.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,496 (45.5% percentile) for all time with 2,566 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,054 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 662 births since 1894.
Vester first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1894 for girls). Birth data for Vester is available in 102 out of the 110 years between 1882 and 1991 (102 years for boys and 58 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 Vester has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.5% of all recorded births being male. In 1991, 100.0% of babies named Vester were boys.
For boys, Vester reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #463) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 120 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
For girls, Vester reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #574) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 41 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vester".
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