Clester
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Clester has been given to 189 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Clester, 1967
1 in 679,000
Clester over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Clester over time
In 1967, Clester went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Clester?
Clester had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1967, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1967
- 1 in 679,000
- 5 of 3,394,772 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1967
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 470,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Clester sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1967 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 470,616 children born in 1967 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clester. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Clesters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Clester was born before 1926 — so the typical Clester is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 36.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (57).
Is Clester rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (12)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.1% average annual change
Spellings of Clester
Clester is not the most common spelling — Lester is, with 50.3% against Clester's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Clester by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Clester
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Clester
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.