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NAMES LIKE ESTHER
Same rise and fall as Esther, around the same years.
WHERE ESTHER IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Esther ranked highest in New Jersey (#37) and lowest in Louisiana (#901). 8 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Esther name popularity
Esther has been given to 272,206 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1918, when 6,588 babies got the name, and its best rank was #40 in 1897.
In 2025, 2,277 babies were named Esther (#290 in the country), 65% below the peak. That is up 40% from 2015.
Almost every Esther is a girl.
An estimated 102K people named Esther are alive in the US today, with a median age of 39.
It was a top-100 name in 35 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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