How Many People Are Named Hester?
people named Hester are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 137,816 people in the US has this name
Based on 14,764 babies named Hester in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
407 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Latin form of ESTHER. Like Esther, it has been used in England since the Protestant Reformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850), Hester Prynne.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Hester, 97.5% were girls and 2.5% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hester alive today is about 71 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 62 and 82 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hester first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 407 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Hester has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #202, in 1881. In 2025 it ranked #15,765.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #15,765 |
| Best rank | #202 (1881) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #303 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hester alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hester were born in South Carolina than in any other state: about 128 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hester was given 3.8 times as often in South Carolina, 3.3 times in Kentucky and 3.3 times in West Virginia.
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