NameTides

Kester

Kester was the #3,684 boys' name in England & Wales in 2025 (5 babies).

Kester as a boy’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
Kester as a boy’s name, US, England & WalesBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.030.050.080.118801900192019401960198020002020England & Wales
Kester as a boy’s name, US, England & WalesBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.030.050.080.11880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & Wales
2025—#3,684 (5)
2024—#3,255 (6)
2023—#4,992 (3)
2022—#3,049 (6)
2020—#3,334 (5)
2019—#2,728 (7)
2018#9,670 (7)#2,693 (7)
2017—#3,040 (6)
2016#10,744 (6)#3,478 (5)
2015#10,644 (6)#2,707 (7)
2014—#3,895 (4)
2013—#2,660 (7)
2012—#2,458 (8)
2011—#2,390 (8)
2010—#2,199 (9)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in England & Wales in 1996 at #898.
  • Holding steady over the last five years.
  • In the England & Wales records since the data begins in 1996.

How common is it?

about 1 in 56,000 baby boys in the published England & Wales list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.