Vester — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vester

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,566 babies named Vester between 1882 and 1991, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vester currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 74 babies received it in a single year. Vester is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 662 additional births since 1894.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vester performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 620 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Vester shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 197 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Vester in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vester in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,566 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.