Ester — #1506 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ester

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,127 babies named Ester between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ester currently holds the #1506 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 281 babies received it in a single year. Ester is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 891 additional births since 1888.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ester performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,373 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ester shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,610 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ester in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ester in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,127 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.