Hester
Hester is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 202nd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918394 births
- Best rank
- #202in 1881
- Since 1880
- 14,759people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,222 girls have been named Hester in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 394 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 394 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 537 boys have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hester | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 796 | |
| 1890s | 1,401 | |
| 1900s | 1,663 | |
| 1910s | 3,111 | |
| 1920s | 3,037 | |
| 1930s | 1,523 | |
| 1940s | 1,115 | |
| 1950s | 754 | |
| 1960s | 348 | |
| 1970s | 239 | |
| 1980s | 154 | |
| 1990s | 49 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 12 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Hester was the 323rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Hester
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alphapeak 1916
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Altapeak 1918
- Artiepeak 1916
- Gertrudepeak 1917
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Gussiepeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
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.