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How popular is the name Chester?
Births per year, rank history and how many Chesters are alive today.
Chester (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 128th in 2025 with 388 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 691 babies were given the name, the 84th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 6,200 babies have been named Chester in England and Wales since 1996.
The Chester you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Chesters born in England and Wales are between 4 and 9, and there are at least 6,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Chester.
How many babies are named Chester each year?
Where does Chester rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Chester most popular?
Chester peaked in 2020, when 691 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Chester?
At least 6,300 people named Chester born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Chester?
Most living Chesters are between 4 and 9; the most common age is about 6.
Is Chester becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.