Rank 2025
#1,574
among girls · ↓60 vs 2024
Babies in 2025
134
named Ester · -6% vs 2024
How common
1 in 11,995
girls born in 2025
Peak year
1925
307 babies
All-time total
17,156
#1,213 all-time among girls
First recorded
1881
in Social Security records
By decade. Change compares yearly averages, so the current partial decade is on equal
footing. Best rank is the name's best yearly rank within the decade.
Where Ester is most popular
Girls named Ester per 1,000 girls born in
each state, 2021–2025. National average: 0.088 per 1,000.
Strongest in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
Vs national average well below below near national above well above no data
All 50 states and DC, sorted by rate. Counts are girls named Ester born
2021–2025; the per-1,000 rate makes states of different sizes
comparable, and the last column shows each state against the national average.
State counts come from the Social Security Administration's state files, which omit any
state-year with fewer than five babies of a name, so small states can undercount slightly.
The story of Ester
Ester is rare for girls in the United States, ranked #1,574 in 2025 with 134 babies given the name. It is currently rising compared with a decade ago.
Since 1881, 17,156 American babies have been named Ester, about 95% girls and 5% boys, making it a genuinely unisex name. Its peak came in 1925, when 307 newborns received the name, the signature sound of the 1920s.
The chart above shows the full history: the popularity view (births per 1,000 babies) is the honest comparison across generations, since total US births have changed enormously since 1880. Switch to the rank view to see where Ester stood among all girls' names in any year, or use the compare tool to plot it against other names.
