Hester
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#15,770
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
5
All-time births
14,227
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 394 births
- Best rank
- #202
- in 1881
- First recorded
- 1880
- #219 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1922
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 123 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1918394#323Peak
- 1923382#335
- 1916378#311
- 1920362#346
- 1919360#335
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #202 in 1881 · peak births 394 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 4% boys■ 96% girls
537 boys · 14,227 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Hester has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.