Lestat
#6,309 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lestat has been given to 528 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #6,309 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Lestat, 2025
1 in 237,000
Lestat 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lestat?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,309
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lestat sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lestat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lestats were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lestat was born before 2009 — so the typical Lestat is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 528
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (244).
Is Lestat 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
- +2,399
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +550
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +240
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 37.8%
- Peak was 2010 (37)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lestat
Lestat is not the most common spelling — Lester is, with 99.6% against Lestat's 0.40%.
- Lester99.6%130,688
- Lestat0.40%528
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.
Where Lestat is used
Across 1910–2025, Lestat was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 959,255 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lestat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lestat around the world
Where Lestat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2002–2010#5,107in 2010
- Canada2018–2018#2,536in 2018
- South Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lestat by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lestat
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lestat
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.