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Name Lester

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From a Old English word for Roman fort

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About the name Lester in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Ester, Hester, Alister, Chester, Dexter, Estera, Estere, Esther, Eszter, Foster Details

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About Lester, the group of names with the same origin as Lester

Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	use of a family name as a given name
	the family name denoted somebody from the city of Leicester in England
	the name of the city appears first in the 10th century AD as Ligora caester
Words:	caester = the Roman fort Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name, Interesting
Variants' top ranks:	478:Lester USA 1980-1989

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Popularity lists that contain the name Lester

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 746, 1980-1989 478
USA yearly	Graph	1999 894, 1997 856, 1996 839, 1995 805, 1994 731, 1993 650