Chester · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Chester.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1894

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 65 recorded years as a table

Chester, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1894	22
1896	29
1899	26
1900	23
1902	27
1903	34
1906	30
1908	15
1909	14
1910	28
1911	22
1912	29
1913	22
1914	24
1915	14
1916	19
1917	19
1918	17
1919	27
1920	23
1921	19
1922	18
1923	19
1924	18
1925	16
1926	30
1927	15
1928	26
1929	16
1930	15
1931	17
1932	12
1933	6
1934	18
1935	9
1936	12
1937	12
1939	5
1940	8
1941	8
1942	11
1943	6
1944	11
1945	11
1946	8
1947	7
1948	6
1949	6
1950	5
1951	3
1952	8
1953	6
1954	4
1955	3
1957	6
1958	3
1959	2
1961	2
1962	3
1966	4
1968	3
1970	3
1972	4
1974	4
1983	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Chester isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1983: 5
Rank in 1983: #10,275
How rare: 1 in 334,121 girls
Since 1894: 828

Chester was last recorded in 1983. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1903, at 34 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Chester doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.