Girl
Hester
The name Hester carries the meaning "Persian, star", with roots in Persian. It was at its most popular in the 1910s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. Its single strongest year on record was 1918.
EtymologyVariant of Esther
PersianPersian – "star"
Births by decade
1900s
1,700
1910s
3,249
1920s
3,180
1930s
1,631
1940s
1,184
1950s
776
1960s
348
1970s
244
1980s
154
1990s
48
2000s
15
2010s
5
Peaked in the 1910s · 12,534 total U.S. births since 1900