# Ester (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ester/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,156 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 891 / 16,265 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 365, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 122 | 1,709 |
| 2012 | 117 | 1,765 |
| 2013 | 122 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 115 | 1,785 |
| 2015 | 112 | 1,842 |
| 2016 | 111 | 1,858 |
| 2017 | 130 | 1,658 |
| 2018 | 118 | 1,744 |
| 2019 | 124 | 1,689 |
| 2020 | 124 | 1,658 |
| 2021 | 144 | 1,486 |
| 2022 | 138 | 1,549 |
| 2023 | 159 | 1,409 |
| 2024 | 143 | 1,514 |
| 2025 | 134 | 1,574 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 9 | 2,739 |
| 1954 | 16 | 1,987 |
| 1955 | 7 | 3,292 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,121 |
| 1957 | 8 | 3,095 |
| 1958 | 8 | 3,119 |
| 1959 | 7 | 3,378 |
| 1961 | 5 | 4,254 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,761 |
| 1967 | 6 | 3,685 |
| 1969 | 5 | 4,602 |
| 1971 | 7 | 4,106 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,462 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,566 |
| 1985 | 6 | 6,025 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,433 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,456 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,405 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,689 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,817 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,846 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,402 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,512 |

## People named Ester

- Ester Ledecká, Czech snowboarder and skier
- Ester Mägi, Estonian composer (1922-2021)
- Ester Boserup, Danish economist (1910–1999)
- Ester, Brazilian association football player
- Ester Geislerová, Czech actress
- Ester Tuiksoo, Estonian politician (born 1965)
- Ester Capella i Farré, Catalan politician
- Ester Toivonen, Finnish model (1914–1979)
- Esther Fahmy Wissa, Egyptian suffragette and women's rights activist (1895-1990)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.