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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ester

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,574

down −60 places

2025 births

134

down −9 births

All-time births

16,265

1% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1925
281 births
Best rank
#368
in 1905
First recorded
1881
#769 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
145 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1925281#411Peak
  2. 1926263#422
  3. 1921253#429
  4. 1922249#420
  5. 1919240#420

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #368 in 1905 · peak births 281 in 1925

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 5% boys■ 95% girls

891 boys · 16,265 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ester has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.