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Hestia

Gender
Girl
Say it
HESS-tee-uh
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Hestia is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “hearth”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Hestia mean?

Greek: name of the Greek goddess

“hearth”

Hestia was the Greek goddess of the hearth and home, the eldest child of Cronus and Rhea.

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

Hestia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Hestia in the US?

Rank in 2025
9,454th among girls
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Hestia, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2016.

Half of all the girls named Hestia in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2016Busiest: 13 in 20232025
Hestia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
202412#8,438
202313#8,050
20227#12,237
20216#13,459
20205#15,083
20195#15,532
20188#11,422
20170–
20166#14,326

Names like Hestia

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

Lydia, Helena, Ophelia, Georgia, Eliza, Sophia, Amelia, Aurelia, Matilda, Lena, Cora, Julia

More Greek names

Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris

Every Greek name

Sources

Figures from 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, “Hestia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hestia, updated 20 October 2026.