Caster

Last seen for boys in 2021 at #9,714

Peak · boys
1953 · 21 births
Debut · boys
21 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
114
since 1953

Caster over time

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Rank among boys' names. Caster has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201953peak #1,677, 1953boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2021#9,7147
2020#9,5547
2019#10,8036
2018#10,7606
2017#9,6967
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2014#12,1085
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1953#1,67721
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First appearance
1953

The first year at least five boys were named Caster! It came in at #1,677, and was given to 21 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1956–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Caster
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1953
  • Peaked 1953 at #1,677 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1956, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 93,919
  • Highest: 1 in 93,919 boys born in 1953 were named Caster (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 249,926 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 46.5% of all boys named Caster (53) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s53#1,677 (1953)#2,503
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s11#9,948 (2004)#10,252
2010s36#9,696 (2017)#10,803
2020s14#9,554 (2020)#9,634

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Caster in 1953

boys
#1,677
21 births · 1 in 93,919 boys

Top boys' names in 1953

  1. #1Robert86,243
  2. #2James86,066
  3. #3Michael84,198
  4. #4John80,165
  5. #5David76,119
  6. #6William61,829
  7. #7Richard58,389
  8. #8Thomas47,008
  9. #9Charles38,421
  10. #10Gary36,967
  11. #1,677Caster21
More about 1953

boys

1,972,299 boys got a published name in 1953; 1 in 93,919 of them was named Caster, which outranked 61.4% of the 4,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caster
  1. #1,630Vivian22
  2. #1,630Winslow22
  3. #1,630Worth22
  4. #1,677Caster21
  5. #1,677Arlo21
  6. #1,677Candelario21
  7. #1,677Ciro21
  8. #1,709Acie20
  9. #1,709Adelbert20
  10. #1,709Alvino20

Tied with 31 names at #1,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1952
Risers
  1. 1,276Faron#2,251#975
  2. 694Shane#1,213#519
  3. 528Enrico#1,517#989
  4. 441Blaise#1,430#989
  5. 429Robbin#1,268#839
Fallers
  1. 427Durwood#981#1,408
  2. 392Jonnie#939#1,331
  3. 312Elvis#968#1,280
  4. 293Edsel#968#1,261
  5. 292Beverly#766#1,058

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1953