Boy
Lester
Lester is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.
Old EnglishOld English place name "Legra ceaster"
EtymologyMeaning "camp on the river Legra" (Leicester)
Births by decade
1900s
4,465
1910s
21,732
1920s
26,839
1930s
17,161
1940s
17,228
1950s
16,710
1960s
9,832
1970s
5,157
1980s
3,585
1990s
2,073
2000s
1,334
2010s
836
Peaked in the 1920s · 126,952 total U.S. births since 1900