Lester

English place-name; phonetic form of Leicester

Lester Origin and Meaning

The name Lester is a boy's name of English origin.

Lester is one of the British surname names that were popular in the US in the early decades of the twentieth century: it was in the Top 100 through 1931, reaching a high of Number 52 in 1906. But dropping of the list in the late 1990s, along with Hester and Sylvester, we don't see much hope for a return visit.

Lester Rank in US Top 1000

# 908 in the US

Popularity of the name Lester

• 1557 Nameberry 2024
• 912 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Lester

• Lester Holt American news anchor
• Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson former Canadian Prime Minister
• Lester Keith Piggott English jockey
• Lester Willis Young American jazz saxophonist
• Lester del Rey (born Leonard Knapp) American science fiction novelist and editor
• Lester Bowie American jazz trumpeter
• Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs American rock music journalist
• (Curtis) Lester Patrick aka Les The Silver Fox, Canadian ice hockey player
• Lester Garfield Maddox Sr., American politician, governor of Georgia
• Lester B. Pearson winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
• Philip "Phil" Michael Lester English radio presenter and Internet personality
• Lester Raymond "Les" Brown American clarinetist and bandleader
• Lester John Thomas "Les" Costello Canadian ice hockey player and priest
• Lester William Polsfuss birth name of Les Paul, American guitarist and luthier
• Lester "Les" Tremayne Anglo,American actor
• Gerry Lester "Bubba" Watson American golfer

The name Lester in Pop Culture

• Lester Burnham main character of the film "American Beauty"
• Lester "Worm" Murphy from the movie "Rounders"
• Lester Nygaard character from the television show "Fargo"
• Archduke Lester DeRosso holder of the Vampire Asterisk in "Bravely Default"
• Lester Papadopoulos main character in Rick Riordan's The Trials Of Apollo
• Lester McKinley brother of title character Alice in the Alice book series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Lester the lab rat character in the 90's Children's Educational show "Beakman's World"