Boys' name · since 1916
Jester
66 babies named Jester in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 66
- total births
- 1916–2016
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 27%
- born in that decade
Jester sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 66 recorded since 1916.
Jester has 66 recorded births among boys since 1916, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 2016.
- 66 total births
- 1916–2016 years on record
- 1920s peak decade
- 27% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jester's 66 recorded births place it above 55% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jester's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jester splits its recorded history at 1953: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1916 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1920 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jester popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–2016
- Peak year (1920)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 101 years of records
Jester by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1920s was Jester's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Jester births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
11 births
- 1920s
1920s
18 births
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
10 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 18 births (27% of all-time use).
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- Jester's decade-level peak was the 1920s (18 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jester: Baby Name Since 1916 - 66 Births, Peak 1920." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jester. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jester draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.