Meaning not yet researched.
Esther: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,277 in 2025. Its best rank was #27 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #27 in 1896; #119 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esther in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#119 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #27.
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Esther: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,277 girls in 2025. Peak: #27 in 1896 · most girls in one year: 6,574 (1918).
In 2025, 2,277 US girls were named Esther, making it the 119th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #130 in 2024. That is 57 more than the 2,220 girls named Esther in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #27, reached in 1896. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,574, in 1918. For comparison, it was #203 in 2015 and #162 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esther in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 198 babies with the name. In all, 272,206 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 49,420 babies named Esther.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,532 US girls were named Esther; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,277. In 2025 that was about 1 in 706 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esther ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #11 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ester (17,156 babies since 1880) and Easter (5,579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Estera, Easther and Eszter are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Essie and Hester.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Estera (116), Easther (42), Eszter (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 248 | #11 | #40 |
| New York | 428 | #15 | #29 |
| Alaska | 9 | #65 | #124 |
| Indiana | 64 | #100 | #242 |
| Washington | 60 | #103 | #200 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #104 | — |
| Massachusetts | 49 | #108 | #167 |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #117 | #199 |
| Minnesota | 44 | #120 | #186 |
| Maryland | 37 | #121 | #189 |
| Missouri | 48 | #124 | #302 |
| Oregon | 27 | #126 | #283 |
| Oklahoma | 28 | #132 | #438 |
| Tennessee | 56 | #133 | #306 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #145 | — |
| Florida | 121 | #146 | #218 |
| Iowa | 21 | #155 | #339 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #159 | — |
| Arkansas | 18 | #169 | #246 |
| Michigan | 51 | #170 | #275 |
| Idaho | 12 | #183 | #292 |
| Nevada | 14 | #185 | #415 |
| Kansas | 18 | #186 | #237 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #186 | #320 |
| California | 175 | #188 | #259 |
| Virginia | 41 | #201 | #320 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #202 | #292 |
| Georgia | 51 | #208 | #218 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #210 | — |
| Illinois | 47 | #212 | #316 |
| Texas | 158 | #215 | #278 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #219 | — |
| Ohio | 52 | #220 | #268 |
| Arizona | 31 | #220 | #275 |
| Montana | 5 | #225 | — |
| Nebraska | 10 | #233 | — |
| South Carolina | 21 | #234 | #437 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #241 | — |
| North Carolina | 45 | #241 | #327 |
| Utah | 19 | #243 | #240 |
| Alabama | 18 | #270 | #458 |
| Colorado | 23 | #273 | #269 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #330 | #408 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #371 | #607 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #400 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #417 | #293 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,277 | #119 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,220 | #130 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,026 | #138 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,088 | #138 | 5 | #12,932 |
| 2021 | 1,847 | #153 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,832 | #148 | 5 | #12,631 |
| 2019 | 1,732 | #165 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,860 | #151 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,836 | #165 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,814 | #182 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,625 | #203 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,669 | #199 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,440 | #222 | 7 | #9,985 |
| 2012 | 1,344 | #238 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,356 | #233 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,259 | #260 | 6 | #11,176 |
| 2009 | 1,254 | #260 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,282 | #267 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,261 | #272 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,158 | #287 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,203 | #273 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,114 | #294 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,103 | #283 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,059 | #296 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,072 | #293 | — | — |
| 2000 | 982 | #323 | — | — |
| 1999 | 994 | #310 | — | — |
| 1998 | 941 | #321 | — | — |
| 1997 | 935 | #315 | — | — |
| 1996 | 890 | #317 | — | — |
| 1995 | 924 | #300 | — | — |
| 1994 | 958 | #287 | — | — |
| 1993 | 907 | #299 | 9 | #5,907 |
| 1992 | 948 | #291 | 8 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 935 | #298 | 8 | #6,131 |
| 1990 | 983 | #283 | 7 | #6,644 |
| 1989 | 903 | #289 | 11 | #4,611 |
| 1988 | 913 | #276 | — | — |
| 1987 | 849 | #288 | 8 | #5,106 |
| 1986 | 861 | #284 | 8 | #5,010 |
| 1985 | 859 | #288 | 7 | #5,331 |
| 1984 | 884 | #271 | 9 | #4,309 |
| 1983 | 860 | #273 | 7 | #5,092 |
| 1982 | 935 | #267 | 9 | #4,338 |
| 1981 | 913 | #272 | 6 | #5,728 |
| 1980 | 842 | #295 | — | — |
| 1979 | 766 | #312 | 7 | #5,008 |
| 1978 | 716 | #320 | — | — |
| 1977 | 767 | #310 | — | — |
| 1976 | 658 | #336 | 6 | #5,134 |
| 1975 | 716 | #320 | — | — |
| 1974 | 728 | #314 | 6 | #4,827 |
| 1973 | 746 | #312 | — | — |
| 1972 | 691 | #332 | — | — |
| 1971 | 785 | #332 | — | — |
| 1970 | 726 | #348 | — | — |
| 1969 | 707 | #337 | — | — |
| 1968 | 730 | #322 | — | — |
| 1967 | 761 | #314 | — | — |
| 1966 | 869 | #290 | 5 | #4,127 |
| 1965 | 966 | #280 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1964 | 1,025 | #286 | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1963 | 1,123 | #263 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,252 | #252 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 1961 | 1,317 | #237 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,361 | #234 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,356 | #234 | 7 | #3,379 |
| 1958 | 1,345 | #226 | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1957 | 1,480 | #217 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,510 | #209 | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1955 | 1,569 | #201 | 5 | #4,032 |
| 1954 | 1,633 | #193 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,613 | #192 | 7 | #3,222 |
| 1952 | 1,712 | #179 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,808 | #169 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,740 | #162 | 8 | #2,849 |
| 1949 | 1,793 | #162 | 8 | #2,866 |
| 1948 | 1,847 | #155 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,842 | #162 | 9 | #2,729 |
| 1946 | 1,778 | #151 | 7 | #2,990 |
| 1945 | 1,467 | #160 | 5 | #3,473 |
| 1944 | 1,612 | #152 | 11 | #2,235 |
| 1943 | 1,758 | #151 | 10 | #2,449 |
| 1942 | 1,832 | #142 | 11 | #2,305 |
| 1941 | 1,810 | #138 | 16 | #1,781 |
| 1940 | 1,900 | #131 | 15 | #1,833 |
| 1939 | 2,110 | #117 | 15 | #1,823 |
| 1938 | 2,132 | #120 | 22 | #1,455 |
| 1937 | 2,156 | #116 | 13 | #2,024 |
| 1936 | 2,253 | #107 | 15 | #1,831 |
| 1935 | 2,542 | #94 | 19 | #1,608 |
| 1934 | 2,579 | #91 | 19 | #1,627 |
| 1933 | 2,676 | #88 | 27 | #1,287 |
| 1932 | 2,959 | #82 | 19 | #1,672 |
| 1931 | 3,034 | #79 | 25 | #1,405 |
| 1930 | 3,350 | #77 | 22 | #1,576 |
| 1929 | 3,587 | #71 | 20 | #1,693 |
| 1928 | 4,096 | #66 | 29 | #1,361 |
| 1927 | 4,327 | #65 | 23 | #1,612 |
| 1926 | 4,453 | #62 | 20 | #1,749 |
| 1925 | 4,726 | #56 | 20 | #1,754 |
| 1924 | 5,258 | #51 | 15 | #2,158 |
| 1923 | 5,315 | #47 | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1922 | 5,474 | #44 | 21 | #1,714 |
| 1921 | 5,926 | #42 | 12 | #2,535 |
| 1920 | 6,068 | #39 | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1919 | 6,248 | #38 | 17 | #1,908 |
| 1918 | 6,574 | #38 | 14 | #2,194 |
| 1917 | 6,281 | #38 | 17 | #1,841 |
| 1916 | 6,421 | #34 | 26 | #1,350 |
| 1915 | 6,321 | #33 | 16 | #1,816 |
| 1914 | 4,654 | #35 | 14 | #1,711 |
| 1913 | 4,090 | #32 | 10 | #1,844 |
| 1912 | 3,569 | #33 | 17 | #1,148 |
| 1911 | 2,676 | #34 | 13 | #944 |
| 1910 | 2,378 | #38 | 11 | #1,003 |
| 1909 | 2,185 | #37 | 11 | #914 |
| 1908 | 2,187 | #36 | 8 | #1,048 |
| 1907 | 2,062 | #37 | 10 | #891 |
| 1906 | 2,065 | #33 | 5 | #1,300 |
| 1905 | 1,993 | #34 | 10 | #804 |
| 1904 | 1,957 | #32 | 5 | #1,265 |
| 1903 | 1,883 | #34 | 6 | #1,052 |
| 1902 | 1,833 | #35 | — | — |
| 1901 | 1,844 | #33 | 10 | #697 |
| 1900 | 2,017 | #39 | 6 | #1,213 |
| 1899 | 1,823 | #29 | — | — |
| 1898 | 2,047 | #31 | 7 | #913 |
| 1897 | 1,911 | #28 | 7 | #879 |
| 1896 | 1,964 | #27 | 6 | #1,026 |
| 1895 | 1,803 | #31 | 16 | #512 |
| 1894 | 1,654 | #36 | 7 | #891 |
| 1893 | 1,382 | #39 | 5 | #1,094 |
| 1892 | 824 | #67 | 5 | #1,124 |
| 1891 | 710 | #66 | — | — |
| 1890 | 619 | #75 | 6 | #928 |
| 1889 | 553 | #75 | — | — |
| 1888 | 572 | #77 | — | — |
| 1887 | 431 | #79 | — | — |
| 1886 | 396 | #85 | — | — |
| 1885 | 320 | #92 | — | — |
| 1884 | 291 | #99 | — | — |
| 1883 | 260 | #99 | — | — |
| 1882 | 266 | #97 | — | — |
| 1881 | 189 | #105 | — | — |
| 1880 | 198 | #104 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).