Levester
Masculine
Levester is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 838 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Levester is built on a clipped Sylvester, and the most consequential man to carry that name is remembered for a document that turned out to be a forgery — one that shaped European politics for seven hundred years first.
How old is the name Levester?
Levester first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Levester alive today was born around 1949, making them about 76 years old. About 400 people named Levester are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Levester most popular?
Levester peaked in 1946, reaching #1509 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Levester
A document appeared claiming that the emperor Constantine, cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester, had granted the papacy authority over Rome, Italy and the whole western empire. It was cited in disputes for centuries, argued over by emperors and popes, and used to justify a great deal — and in the fifteenth century a scholar examined its Latin, found words that did not exist when it was supposedly written, and demonstrated that it was an eighth-century forgery. The analysis is one of the founding pieces of modern textual criticism. The claim had by then been shaping European politics for seven hundred years, which the exposure did not undo.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is an American prefix with no meaning. The name behind the back half, Sylvester, is Latin and means of the woods. A clipped stem plus a prefix does not carry the stem's meaning in any straightforward way.
Pronouncing Levester
luh-VES-ter
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first syllable is barely voiced.
Nicknames for Levester
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 194923 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1509reached in 1946
- Change vs 1995
- −28.6%5 in 2001, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Levesters among us
people named Levester are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Levester sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight with nothing difficult in it.
- The middle stress carries well.
- It shortens to a name that appears in the record on its own.
- Levester, Lavester and Sylvester are all nearby and his will be heard as one of them.
- The spelling is recorded for a few girls, but nearly every child with it is a boy.
- The prefix carries no meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Levesters are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Levester are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Levester in 2025?
- Levester is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Levester with classmates?
- Levester will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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