Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the name of the city of Leicester, originally indicating someone from that place. The city’s name comes from the river name Ligore combined with Latin castra, meaning “camp.”
20062006: 146 births, rank #1,154
2007: 120 births, rank #1,376
2008: 142 births, rank #1,227
2009: 127 births, rank #1,353
2010: 118 births, rank #1,408
20112011: 102 births, rank #1,544
2012: 104 births, rank #1,535
2013: 125 births, rank #1,352
2014: 106 births, rank #1,514
2015: 104 births, rank #1,555
20162016: 105 births, rank #1,563
2017: 88 births, rank #1,746
2018: 93 births, rank #1,687
2019: 100 births, rank #1,634
2020: 109 births, rank #1,528
20212021: 109 births, rank #1,583
2022: 96 births, rank #1,737
2023: 82 births, rank #1,909
2024: 111 births, rank #1,563
20252025: 103 births, rank #1,634
Lester moved from #855 to #876 for boys between 1997 and 1999. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 3,229 births.