Chester
2025 SSA
About Chester
Chester is a comfortable, little-used teddy-bear of a name that suddenly sounds both quirky and cuddly.
Chester was a Top 100 name in the US from the 1880s to 1929, gradually fading till it finally dropped off the list completely in 1995. But it's popular now in England and Wales, where it ranks in the Top 100
Chester has been seen on old TV shows like Gunsmoke and The Life of Riley, then reappeared later on The Nanny and The Wire. Chester Alan Arthur made it presidential, it was a World War II hero via Admiral Chester Nimitz, the comic world associates it with Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy, and it has modern musical ties to Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park.
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have a son named Chester.
Nickname Chet has, like Hank, a friendly retro vibe.
Pronounced CHES-ter.
As of October 2026, Chester ranked #1588 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #53 in 1919, Nameberry popularity #985.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,783 | 84 | 43.7 |
| 2015 | #1,625 | 98 | 51.1 |
| 2016 | #1,925 | 76 | 40 |
| 2017 | #1,697 | 93 | 50.2 |
| 2018 | #1,689 | 93 | 51.2 |
| 2019 | #1,725 | 91 | 50.7 |
| 2020 | #1,620 | 99 | 57.4 |
| 2021 | #2,134 | 67 | 38.3 |
| 2022 | #1,760 | 94 | 53.8 |
| 2023 | #1,729 | 96 | 56.1 |
| 2024 | #1,650 | 102 | 59.2 |
| 2025 | #1,588 | 107 | 62.6 |
World rankings
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Chester on lists
Famous Chesters
- Chester Alan Arthur
21st U.S. president
- Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf
American blues musician
- Chester Greenwood
American inventor of earmuffs
- Chester Charles Bennington
late lead singer of American alt,rock band Linkin Park
- Chester Cortez Thompson
American rock drummer
- (John) Chester Brooks Morris
American actor
- Chester William Nimitz
American WWII admiral
- Chester See
American YouTuber
- Chester Lamar Taylor
American NFL football player
- (James) Chester Manifold
Australian politician
- Chester Cooper Conklin
American actor/comedian
- Chester Bomar Himes
American novelist
- Chester Floyd Carlson
American physicist; inventor of xerography
- Chester Simon Kallman
American poet and librettist
- Chester Conn
American composer
- Chester Gould
American cartoonist; creator of "Dick Tracy"
- Chester Earl "Chet" Holifield
U.S. Congressman from California
- Chester Marlon Hanks
son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
- Chester William Baldwin
son of Holly Willoughby & Dan Baldwin
Chester in pop culture
- Chester Mcbadbat
character on animated series "Fairly Oddparents"
- Chester Meredith
character in P. G. Wodehouse's "Chester Forgets Himself"
- Chester
cat character in the Bunnicula series by James Howe
- Chester Cheetah
Cheetos advertising mascot
- Chester Langston
character on TV's "American Gothic"
- Chester
character in "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
- Chester Barklight
character in video game "Tales of Phantasia"
- Chester Goode
character on TV's "Gunsmoke"
- Chester Karol "Ziggy" Sobotka
character on TV's "The Wire"
- Chester the Molester
cartoon character in Hustler magazine
- "Chester
" song by Dana Dane
- Chester
city in England
- Chester
a voice from the computer in podcast "The Magnus Protocol"