Lester is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lester
No. of characters: 6
Origin: England
Meaning: A borough town in England; a camp of the Roman legion. Focused in the Indre and Haute-Vienne, this is probably a variant of Lesterps. Lesterps is the name of a town in the Charente, as well as that of a hamlet heaven. Meaning: wood cleared (latin = stirpes strains).

How popular is Lester?

Lester is common in United States.

Lester is ranked 7411 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Lester bearers increased by 1.969535 per cent in 2010 US census to 44784 since 2000, the surname slipped by 59 spots and ranked at 768. The last name was found in around 152 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 75.78 77.72
Black 18.6 18.1
Hispanic or Latino 2.22 1.49
Others 1.75 1.32
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.21 1.08
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.43 0.29
Lester is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Gibraltar is ahead in terms of density. Around 72986 people have been found who wears Lester as their family name. Lester is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
705 Gibraltar7
48,950 Moldova6
8,582 Japan6
122,390 Belarus4
2,011 South Korea4
3,949 Botswana3
8,296 Sri Lanka3
15,749 Finland3
4,554 Guatemala3
20,837 Venezuela2
37,372 Georgia2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
44,018 Poland2
9,272 Ecuador2
7,574 Bangladesh2
5,443 Dominican Republic2
14,408 Uruguay2
23,344 Austria2
31,584 Peru1
17,236 Ghana1
6,149 Ethiopia1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
7,198 Maldives1
25,721 Egypt1
2,024 Mongolia1
9,116 Nicaragua1
318 Montserrat1
846 American Samoa1
880 Djibouti1
10,683 Cyprus1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
2,877 Cuba1
1,818 Guernsey1
3,586 Honduras1
6,688 Malawi1
2,040 Mali1
5,916 Mozambique1
3,275 Nepal1
47,891 Norway1
17,768 Pakistan1
1,421 Saint Lucia1
36,814 Romania1
53,505 Turkey1
13,447 Uganda1
16,640 Hong Kong1
29,595 Iran1
2,057 Isle of Man1
7,292 Vietnam1
3,071 Jersey1
17,575 Kuwait1
12,745 Luxembourg1
1,572 Macau1
24,176 Qatar1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
59,023 Tanzania49
29,242 Zimbabwe46
33,012 Belgium45
21,712 Sweden44
293,591 India37
18,843 Chile36
193,368 Indonesia35
8,214 Singapore35
3,226 Guyana27
36,547 Switzerland27
3,873 Thailand24
3,334 Costa Rica19
1,286 Malta16
699 Bermuda13
3,343 China13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
67,110 Italy90
11,356 United Arab Emirates84
5,540 Portugal83
3,494 Panama82
2,497 Trinidad and Tobago62
79,768 Ukraine56
39,248 Netherlands53
Countries with hundreds of Lester:
972 New Zealand729
832 Wales463
23,918 Germany437
795 Jamaica428
2,015 Scotland354
28,906 France343
13,215 Mexico314
17,266 Argentina314
6,650 Malaysia304
1,042 Northern Ireland298
4,308 Israel259
13,453 Saudi Arabia231
49,962 Brazil207
2,355 Ireland191
85,798 Russia143
4,865 Denmark123
24,715 Spain111
Countries with thousands of Lester:
869 England8,540
941 Australia3,314
2,270 South Africa2,867
2,134 Canada2,377
10,039 Philippines1,482
Countries with ten thousands of Lester:
770 United States48,089
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Thomas Lester worked as clerk and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 20 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Oxford and arrived on April 25, 1846. Bridget Lester (17), George Lester, aged 21, Robert Lester (27) Mechanic, Joseph Lester (36) Workman, Immigrant John-Berry Lester, Margt. Lester, aged 20, Margt. Lester (31) Weaver, Lydia Lester, aged 11, and 34 other Lester around 48.28% of whom were workman while others worked as servant and sail maker, seamstress migrated to US.

Lester Namesakes

  • Amy J. Lester characterized the vital role of Amy in 2018 comedy film An Irrelephant.
  • In 0 drama film, What She Said, Jenny Lester played Sam.
  • Danielle Lester, from 2015 0 film Crash Site, who portrayed Diana, The Comic Book Girl.
  • Terry Lester, from 1972 comedy flick Next Stop Makouvlei, who portrayed the Sir Percy and Archie.

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