Hester
10
Babies in 2024
-50%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 27
-33%
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 Hester
Hester has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 10 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 50% on a decade earlier.
Hester reached its peak in 2015, when 27 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,240 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 37% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 468 girls have been officially registered with the name Hester in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 174 girls were registered with the name, starting from 20 in 2014 and ending at 10 in 2024.