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Webster

#7,161 in 2025Boys' name

Weaver

Webster has been given to 4,459 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,161 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Webster, 2025

1 in 276,000

Webster over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Webster: meaning, origin, and history

Weaver

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Webster means

Webster means “weaver”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,459 boys were recorded with the name Webster between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1915; its best national rank was #388 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,010 in 2020 to #7,161 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,567 in 2015 to #7,161 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Webster?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,161
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Webster sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Webster. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Websters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Webster was born before 1935 — so the typical Webster is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,577
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (746).

Is Webster 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
+562
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,406
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 1915 (101)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#388
1890

Spellings of Webster

Webster is not the most common spelling — Lester is, with 92.7% against Webster's 3.2%.

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 Webster is used

Across 1910–2025, Webster was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 131,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 33,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 50,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000

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. Webster has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Webster around the world

Where Webster 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.

  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Webster

People whose public names include Webster, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Webster by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,161
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 151
Best rank ever
#388
1890
Peak year
1915
101 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,459
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Webster

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Webster

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Webster, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Webster

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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