Vester
Vester is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 540th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192274 births
- Best rank
- #540in 1894
- Since 1882
- 3,228people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,566 boys have been named Vester in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 74 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 74 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Vester is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are girls (662), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vester | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 33 | |
| 1890s | 85 | |
| 1900s | 122 | |
| 1910s | 479 | |
| 1920s | 620 | |
| 1930s | 416 | |
| 1940s | 307 | |
| 1950s | 228 | |
| 1960s | 145 | |
| 1970s | 82 | |
| 1980s | 44 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Vester was the 778th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Vester
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arliepeak 1921
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Garnettpeak 1920
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Ewellpeak 1919
- Johniepeak 1920
- Othapeak 1920
- Oralpeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.