Chester
Below 5 births
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.
Chester is also given to girls.
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 · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,783 | 84 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,625 | 98 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,925 | 76 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,697 | 93 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,689 | 93 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,725 | 91 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,620 | 99 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,134 | 67 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,760 | 94 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,729 | 96 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,650 | 102 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,588 | 107 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Chester for boys
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Chester on lists
Famous Chesters
- Chester Alan ArthurBoy
21st U.S. president
- Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin' WolfBoy
American blues musician
- Chester GreenwoodBoy
American inventor of earmuffs
- Chester Charles BenningtonBoy
late lead singer of American alt,rock band Linkin Park
- Chester Cortez ThompsonBoy
American rock drummer
- (John) Chester Brooks MorrisBoy
American actor
- Chester William NimitzBoy
American WWII admiral
- Chester SeeBoy
American YouTuber
- Chester Lamar TaylorBoy
American NFL football player
- (James) Chester ManifoldBoy
Australian politician
- Chester Cooper ConklinBoy
American actor/comedian
- Chester Bomar HimesBoy
American novelist
- Chester Floyd CarlsonBoy
American physicist; inventor of xerography
- Chester Simon KallmanBoy
American poet and librettist
- Chester ConnBoy
American composer
- Chester GouldBoy
American cartoonist; creator of "Dick Tracy"
- Chester Earl "Chet" HolifieldBoy
U.S. Congressman from California
- Chester Marlon HanksBoy
son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
- Chester William BaldwinBoy
son of Holly Willoughby & Dan Baldwin
Chester in pop culture
- Chester McbadbatBoy
character on animated series "Fairly Oddparents"
- Chester MeredithBoy
character in P. G. Wodehouse's "Chester Forgets Himself"
- ChesterBoy
cat character in the Bunnicula series by James Howe
- Chester CheetahBoy
Cheetos advertising mascot
- Chester LangstonBoy
character on TV's "American Gothic"
- ChesterBoy
character in "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
- Chester BarklightBoy
character in video game "Tales of Phantasia"
- Chester GoodeBoy
character on TV's "Gunsmoke"
- Chester Karol "Ziggy" SobotkaBoy
character on TV's "The Wire"
- Chester the MolesterBoy
cartoon character in Hustler magazine
- "ChesterBoy
" song by Dana Dane
- ChesterBoy
city in England
- ChesterBoy
a voice from the computer in podcast "The Magnus Protocol"