Chester
464
Babies in 2024
+300%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 691
-20%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Chester
Chester is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (464) are up 300% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Chester reached its peak in 2020, when 691 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #84 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 464 represents 67% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,862 boys have been officially registered with the name Chester in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,155 boys were registered with the name, starting from 116 in 2014 and ending at 464 in 2024.