Vester
Vester reached its high-water mark in 1922 at number 766, and has been recorded 3,228 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1991. About 710 Vesters are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vester boys named Vester
Girls and boys called Vester
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 662 girls and 2,566 boys in all, and in 1959 the split was 10 to 20.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 49 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,228
- Estimated living today
- 710
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 766th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 662 / 2,566
How old the living Vesters are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,228 babies given the name since 1882, about 710 are alive — 22 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Vester is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vester is most concentrated in Alabama (12.9×), Arkansas (11.7×), Mississippi (8.7×), Oklahoma (5.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Vester peaked:
Vester among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Vester | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Vester against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.