Hello, my name isGirlBoy
Esther
Pronounced /ˈɛstɚ/
Rank in 2024
#131
Born in 2024
2,206
Peak year
1918 · #38
Origin
Persian
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,206 girls were named Esther, about 1 in every 731.
- It peaked in 1918 with 6,574 babies, ranked #38.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 268,912 girls have been named Esther since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Esther per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 5.3Greatest1901–27
- 2.1Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 108,769 babies, 5.31 per 1,000. Silent: 43,852 babies, 2.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 29,106 babies, 0.81 per 1,000. Gen X: 12,168 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,521 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18,302 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 21,964 babies, 1.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Ancient Greek Ἐσθήρ (Esthḗr), from Biblical Hebrew אֶסְתֵּר (ʾestēr). Has been connected to Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎼 (a-s-t-r /star-/, “star”) (whence Middle Persian 𐭮𐭲𐭫 (stl /star/, “star”), 𐭮𐭲𐭠𐭫𐭪 (stʾlk /stārag/, “star”), Persian ستاره (sitāra / setâre, “star”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (if so, a distant doublet of star); or else to Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar, “Ishtar”) (Hebrew עִשְׁתָּר (ʿištār)).
- A female given name from Persian.
- Origin
- Persian
- Say it
- /ˈɛstɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Esther, CC BY-SA 4.0.