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Ester

Gender
Girl
Say it
ES-ter
Origin
Persian
UK rank, 2025
#1,570 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,570 for girls

Ester is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “star”. In 2025 it ranked 1,570th for girls in the UK (20 babies) and 1,570th for girls in the US (134 babies).

What does Ester mean?

Persian: form of Esther

“star”

Form of Esther used in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech and Scandinavian languages.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Ester a girl's or a boy's name?

Ester is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the UK and 134 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ester in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,570th among girls
Babies in 2025
20 about 1 in 14,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 2% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were named Ester, making it the 1,570th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,948th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 24 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ester in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 378 girls in the UK were given Ester or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #169, up from #1,570 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,512th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 24 in 20222025
Ester in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#1,570
202413#2,175
202310#2,640
202224#1,406
202123#1,448
202015#1,948
201910#2,590
201817#1,810
201716#1,913
201618#1,781
201523#1,474
201421#1,544
201322#1,505
20128#3,148
20119#2,794
201013#2,103
200912#2,153
200814#1,943
20078#2,790
200612#1,987
200510#2,206
20049#2,226
200310#1,954
20027#2,436
20017#2,341
20005#2,907
19998#2,089
19986#2,535
19973#3,991

How popular is Ester in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,570th among girls
Babies in 2025
134 about 1 in 12,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 19% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 134 girls in the US were named Ester, making it the 1,570th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,654th. Its busiest year was 1925, with 281 girls. It first appears in the records in 1881.

2025 had fewer girls named Ester than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Ester in the US since 1880 were born between 1925 and 1986, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,411 girls in the US were given Ester or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #145, up from #1,570 for this spelling alone.

1881Busiest: 281 in 19252025
Ester in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025134#1,570
2024143#1,509
2023159#1,407
2022138#1,548
2021144#1,484
2020124#1,654
2019124#1,687
2018118#1,741
2017130#1,655
2016111#1,857
2015112#1,839
2014115#1,781
2013122#1,705
2012117#1,760
2011122#1,708
2010119#1,747
200992#2,165
2008137#1,642
2007103#1,988
200695#2,069
2005119#1,667
200488#2,065
200396#1,895
200298#1,819
200179#2,092
2000102#1,715
199991#1,750
199878#1,937
199776#1,911
199671#1,978
199575#1,858
199479#1,805
199368#2,028
199269#1,982
199180#1,773
199067#2,006
198982#1,663
198870#1,786
198759#1,917
198679#1,538
198564#1,759
198456#1,886
198372#1,552
198294#1,325
198179#1,515
198072#1,605
197974#1,555
197853#1,862
197764#1,637
197660#1,638
197562#1,586
197480#1,323
197372#1,374
197286#1,226
1971106#1,113
197089#1,247
196984#1,214
196879#1,231
196789#1,103
196689#1,119
1965119#933
1964137#888
1963141#884
1962141#890
1961145#895
1960160#825
1959147#842
1958147#840
1957149#831
1956164#760
1955158#753
1954141#788
1953180#668
1952178#663
1951143#727
1950177#645
1949173#627
1948183#609
1947171#637
1946173#599
1945127#651
1944157#585
1943156#603
1942150#611
1941140#595
1940152#562
1939125#602
1938139#584
1937165#510
1936151#527
1935158#507
1934157#513
1933147#523
1932163#513
1931179#477
1930193#481
1929207#460
1928228#453
1927220#470
1926263#422
1925281#410
1924216#473
1923230#450
1922249#419
1921253#428
1920226#447
1919240#420
1918202#469
1917175#498
1916198#451
1915187#448
1914134#475
1913121#451
1912123#419
1911101#400
191092#411
190969#445
190859#468
190783#389
190665#423
190585#367
190452#450
190344#482
190243#478
190150#425
190072#390
189944#438
189855#415
189751#408
189643#440
189541#440
189437#457
189336#439
189235#460
189120#589
189025#524
188918#600
188821#548
188711#693
188616#556
188511#658
188413#583
18839#651
188210#596
18816#740

Names like Ester

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Elsie, Eva, Edith, Ruby, Evelyn, Ella, Lottie, Etta, Hazel, Ada, Frankie, Evie

Other spellings of Ester

Esther

Names related to Ester

Aster, Estera, Estreya

More Persian names

Jasper, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman, Armaan

Every Persian name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ester: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ester, updated 20 October 2026.