Alester
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪlstɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alester is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.6M(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 437K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alester counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 615K | — | Alester | 15 |
| US United States | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Alester | 69 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 490K | — | Alester | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Alester | 7 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Alester | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 22 | 1 in 9.6M | 30 | Alester | 10 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Alester | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | Alester | 1 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Alester | 5 |
| SH St. Helena | #582 | — | — | — | Alester | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 30 | #39,412 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #116,443 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 15 | #579 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Alester?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪlstɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Alester a male or female name?
- Alester is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Alester have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 177 people named Alester in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alester.
- Where is Alester most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alester is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alester?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 22 people named Alester in 2022, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
- How common is Alester compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Alester is the 582nd most common given name of 648 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alester?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alesterThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alester” — the 582nd most common given name in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.