Ester
Ester is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 143 births. Its best rank was 368th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1430.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1925281 births
- Best rank
- #368in 1905
- Since 1881
- 17,018people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,127 girls have been named Ester in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 281 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 891 boys have also been given it, 5.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ester | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 115 | |
| 1890s | 387 | |
| 1900s | 622 | |
| 1910s | 1,573 | |
| 1920s | 2,373 | |
| 1930s | 1,577 | |
| 1940s | 1,581 | |
| 1950s | 1,584 | |
| 1960s | 1,183 | |
| 1970s | 745 | |
| 1980s | 727 | |
| 1990s | 754 | |
| 2000s | 1,009 | |
| 2010s | 1,190 | |
| 2020s | 707 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Ester was the 411th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Ester
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Manuelapeak 1924
- Irmapeak 1920
- Zenobiapeak 1923
- Ceceliapeak 1918
- Arlenapeak 1919
- Novellapeak 1923
- Queenpeak 2018
- Petrapeak 1927
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.