Esther
The 2025 national count puts Esther at #119, and rising year over year. The peak was 1918, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Esther carries
Esther · Persian
“star”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Esther’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Esther, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Esther since 1880
Esther peaked in 1918 at #38; #119 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Esther is most common
The state that gives Esther most often, per girls born there, is New Jersey (0.7% in 2025); New York and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Esther
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Jasper
#129 in 2025 · Persian
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Mary
#125 in 2025 · Hebrew
George
#126 in 2025 · Greek
Calvin
#132 in 2025
Browse: names starting with E · Persian names · all names
About Esther
Where does Esther rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Esther at #119, and rising year over year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What is the recorded meaning of Esther?
The gloss on record reads “star”, of Persian origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Esther?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Elsie, Jasper and Eva, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Esther’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Esther earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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