Chester
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning fortress, camp.
Chester by the numbers
In 2025, 388 babies in England and Wales were named Chester. In the US, 91 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 3,698 babies in 1920, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Names that come from Chester
Forms of Chester in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chester. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Chester
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