Meaning not yet researched.
Nestor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #587 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #587 in 1991; #1,535 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nestor in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,535 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #587.
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Nestor: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 boys in 2025. Peak: #587 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 300 (1991).
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Nestor, making it the 1,535th most common boys’ name of the year, up 183 places from #1,718 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 97 boys named Nestor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #587, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 300. For comparison, it was #1,386 in 2015 and #1,414 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nestor in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 10,430 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,587 babies named Nestor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 997 US boys were named Nestor; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 126. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nestor ranked highest in California in 2025, at #824 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nester are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nester (101).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nestor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30 | #824 | #776 |
| Arizona | 7 | #827 | #853 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,002 | #898 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,322 | #1,247 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 113 | #1,535 |
| 2024 | — | — | 97 | #1,718 |
| 2023 | — | — | 91 | #1,782 |
| 2022 | — | — | 76 | #2,018 |
| 2021 | — | — | 94 | #1,734 |
| 2020 | — | — | 89 | #1,740 |
| 2019 | — | — | 108 | #1,558 |
| 2018 | — | — | 96 | #1,667 |
| 2017 | — | — | 126 | #1,398 |
| 2016 | — | — | 107 | #1,552 |
| 2015 | — | — | 125 | #1,386 |
| 2014 | — | — | 108 | #1,502 |
| 2013 | — | — | 106 | #1,526 |
| 2012 | — | — | 115 | #1,445 |
| 2011 | — | — | 123 | #1,370 |
| 2010 | — | — | 165 | #1,130 |
| 2009 | — | — | 157 | #1,159 |
| 2008 | — | — | 194 | #1,006 |
| 2007 | — | — | 209 | #947 |
| 2006 | — | — | 201 | #935 |
| 2005 | — | — | 226 | #829 |
| 2004 | — | — | 197 | #882 |
| 2003 | — | — | 189 | #891 |
| 2002 | — | — | 196 | #847 |
| 2001 | — | — | 218 | #779 |
| 2000 | — | — | 236 | #727 |
| 1999 | — | — | 247 | #683 |
| 1998 | — | — | 226 | #728 |
| 1997 | — | — | 201 | #750 |
| 1996 | — | — | 237 | #685 |
| 1995 | — | — | 253 | #657 |
| 1994 | — | — | 271 | #632 |
| 1993 | — | — | 290 | #612 |
| 1992 | — | — | 298 | #597 |
| 1991 | — | — | 300 | #587 |
| 1990 | — | — | 264 | #624 |
| 1989 | — | — | 255 | #620 |
| 1988 | — | — | 216 | #643 |
| 1987 | — | — | 173 | #688 |
| 1986 | — | — | 133 | #787 |
| 1985 | — | — | 139 | #757 |
| 1984 | — | — | 115 | #817 |
| 1983 | — | — | 108 | #841 |
| 1982 | — | — | 109 | #852 |
| 1981 | — | — | 98 | #905 |
| 1980 | — | — | 106 | #866 |
| 1979 | — | — | 90 | #929 |
| 1978 | — | — | 94 | #888 |
| 1977 | — | — | 73 | #1,008 |
| 1976 | — | — | 80 | #937 |
| 1975 | — | — | 56 | #1,134 |
| 1974 | — | — | 85 | #876 |
| 1973 | — | — | 78 | #911 |
| 1972 | — | — | 66 | #998 |
| 1971 | — | — | 67 | #996 |
| 1970 | — | — | 79 | #903 |
| 1969 | — | — | 60 | #997 |
| 1968 | — | — | 58 | #964 |
| 1967 | — | — | 56 | #978 |
| 1966 | — | — | 57 | #964 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,182 |
| 1964 | — | — | 45 | #1,158 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,063 |
| 1962 | — | — | 59 | #1,001 |
| 1961 | — | — | 56 | #1,047 |
| 1960 | — | — | 51 | #1,092 |
| 1959 | — | — | 54 | #1,059 |
| 1958 | — | — | 60 | #991 |
| 1957 | — | — | 56 | #1,020 |
| 1956 | — | — | 34 | #1,329 |
| 1955 | — | — | 34 | #1,305 |
| 1954 | — | — | 44 | #1,132 |
| 1953 | — | — | 41 | #1,164 |
| 1952 | — | — | 31 | #1,368 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,586 |
| 1950 | — | — | 27 | #1,414 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,370 |
| 1948 | — | — | 26 | #1,450 |
| 1947 | — | — | 28 | #1,412 |
| 1946 | — | — | 24 | #1,461 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,564 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,421 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,514 |
| 1942 | — | — | 18 | #1,717 |
| 1941 | — | — | 19 | #1,627 |
| 1940 | — | — | 19 | #1,609 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,848 |
| 1938 | — | — | 23 | #1,426 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,062 |
| 1936 | — | — | 25 | #1,350 |
| 1935 | — | — | 24 | #1,414 |
| 1934 | — | — | 29 | #1,262 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,688 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,832 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,577 |
| 1930 | — | — | 32 | #1,271 |
| 1929 | — | — | 32 | #1,260 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,406 |
| 1927 | — | — | 30 | #1,367 |
| 1926 | — | — | 24 | #1,550 |
| 1925 | — | — | 27 | #1,441 |
| 1924 | — | — | 26 | #1,522 |
| 1923 | — | — | 26 | #1,483 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,311 |
| 1921 | — | — | 31 | #1,353 |
| 1920 | — | — | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,228 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,692 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,518 |
| 1916 | — | — | 29 | #1,258 |
| 1915 | — | — | 31 | #1,177 |
| 1914 | — | — | 24 | #1,214 |
| 1913 | — | — | 18 | #1,238 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,501 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,680 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,384 |
| 1908 | — | — | 7 | #1,187 |
| 1907 | — | — | 9 | #979 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,370 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,367 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,250 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,179 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #948 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,044 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).