Esther
343
Babies in 2024
-5%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 380
+2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Esther
Esther appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #145 with 343 girls registered in England & Wales.
Esther reached its peak in 2017, when 380 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #141 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,771 girls have been officially registered with the name Esther in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,659 girls were registered with the name, starting from 361 in 2014 and ending at 343 in 2024.