Webster
Webster is a boy's name that peaked in 1915, when it was the 562nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,600 Websters are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Webster
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,459
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 562nd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Websters are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,459 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,600 are alive — 36 in every hundred. Roughly 190 of them are children and 610 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Websters
- Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934)British theosophist
- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908)American socialite
People named Webster with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Webster is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Webster is most concentrated in Louisiana (12.0×), Mississippi (7.0×), Alabama (5.1×), Maryland (4.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Webster peaked:
Related names
Webster against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.