Ester

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ester: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ester: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #134, and it stood at #209 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
114times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#134highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#2407
1999	#1970
2000	#3912
2001	#2226
2002	#2301
2003	#1843
2004	#2278
2005	#2084
2006	#1862
2007	#2627
2008	#1815
2009	#2019
2010	#2104
2011	#2893
2012	#2969
2013	#1433
2014	#1456
2015	#1405
2016	#1689
2017	#1817
2018	#1788
2019	#2643
2020	#1846
2021	#1402
2022	#1326
2023	#2504
2024	#2115

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 77 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #253 among girls in Norway, #2115 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #155 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #134 among girls in Norway, in 1947 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #209 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Ester appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 77 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,084 births with the name.

Ester across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ester's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#155 (1945)	#134 (1947)	#209 (2025)	77 of 81	1,084 (1945–2025)	38 (1947)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#372 (1964)	#282 (1965)	#876 (2014)	9 of 51	32 (1964–2014)	6 (1965)
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#1326 (2022)	#2115 (2024)	28 of 28	345 (1997–2024)	24 (2022)

Ester by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ester in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	166	5 of 10	33
1950s	261	10 of 10	26
1960s	114	10 of 10	11
1970s	82	10 of 10	8
1980s	34	6 of 10	6
1990s	80	10 of 10	8
2000s	106	10 of 10	11
2010s	141	10 of 10	14
2020s	100	6 of 10	17

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ester appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #134 in Norway in 1947.

Ester's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2115	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1402	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1817	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1689	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1456	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#209	21	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#253	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#251	16	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#338	10	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#207	20	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#250	17	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#332	11	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#243	18	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#251	20	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#311	15	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#434	8	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#353	12	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#361	12	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#275	18	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#317	15	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#365	12	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#334	14	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#355	12	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#424	9	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#328	13	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#493	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#478	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#487	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#268	16	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#258	17	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#461	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#396	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#430	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#501	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#382	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#353	11	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#418	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#469	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#458	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#651	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#527	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#564	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#600	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#656	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#530	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#519	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#339	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#426	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#547	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#545	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#368	10	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#343	11	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#352	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#442	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#548	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#282	14	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#260	14	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#258	14	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#371	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#336	9	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#252	14	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#274	11	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#290	11	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#229	15	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#192	19	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#188	20	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#148	29	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#179	22	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#174	23	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#140	34	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#139	34	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#157	28	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#177	23	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#156	29	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#136	36	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#151	29	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#134	38	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#155	31	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#155	32	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	6	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 77 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #134, first reached in 1947.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in Norway in 1947.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 52 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Estelle · #391, 42y
Esten · #378, 18y
Estera · #491, 21y
Esther · #79, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Irina · #136, 74y
Bo · #129, 77y
Edgar · #122, 76y
Petra · #120, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Karstein · #134, 36y
Thelma · #134, 56y
Yngvar · #134, 40y
Brith · #135, 25y

Ester was ranked #134 in Norway · Girls in 1947. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ester and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ester without appearing here.

Ester moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #5742.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #5493.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Ester

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1862 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2627 and #1573.
Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #1469.
Rory Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1452 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #1469.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #1959.

Moved the opposite way to Ester

Mia Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #134 to #209 while Mia went from #357 to #21.
Sara Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #134 to #209 while Sara went from #385 to #43.
Karoline Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #136 to #209 while Karoline went from #387 to #223.
Oda Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #136 to #209 while Oda went from #351 to #87.

Moved the same way as Ester

Elizabeth Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #155 to #253 and Elizabeth from #341 to #484.
Tone Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #155 to #253 and Tone from #56 to #518.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #155 to #251 and Ann from #82 to #404.
Berit Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Ester went from #155 to #251 and Berit from #7 to #494.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #134 in Norway in 1947. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ester

Ester at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ester across 3 official records

Ester by decade in Norway · Girls

Ester appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ester

Ester and the names beside it

Ester moved ahead of

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Ester at a glance

Ester across 3 official records

Ester by decade in Norway · Girls

Ester appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ester

Ester and the names beside it

Ester moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ester

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