Meaning and history
Lestat is a name used by author Anne Rice for a character in her Vampire Chronicles novels, first published in 1976, where it belongs to the French vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Rice may have intended the name to seem derived from Old French or Occitan l'estat, meaning “state” or “status,” though it was apparently inspired by her husband’s name, Stan.
20062006: 31 births, rank #3,384
2007: 28 births, rank #3,687
2008: 34 births, rank #3,286
2009: 28 births, rank #3,721
2010: 37 births, rank #3,072
20112011: 13 births, rank #6,256
2012: 25 births, rank #4,003
2013: 15 births, rank #5,659
2014: 16 births, rank #5,485
2015: 13 births, rank #6,324
20162016: 22 births, rank #4,470
2017: 14 births, rank #6,060
2018: 20 births, rank #4,739
2019: 18 births, rank #5,153
2020: 12 births, rank #6,620
20212021: 12 births, rank #6,698
2022: 14 births, rank #6,147
2023: 8 births, rank #8,921
2024: 9 births, rank #8,312
20252025: 14 births, rank #6,143
In 2025, 14 babies were recorded with the name Lestat, ranking #6,143 among boys.