Female Name
Hester
ˈhɛs.təɹ
ˈhɛs.tə
ˈɦɛs.tər
Overview
Gender
feminine
Origin
Categories
angels
authors
currently out of the US top 1000
D. H. Lawrence characters
educators
ends in -er
explorers
fictional characters
Frasier characters
His Dark Materials characters
Characteristics
How people perceive this name
Overall Rating
73/100
classic160%
mature100%
formal100%
upper class100%
natural80%
wholesome80%
strong140%
refined80%
strange120%
serious120%
Meaning & Etymology
Latin form of Esther. Like Esther, it has been used in England since the Protestant Reformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman forced to wear a red letter A on her chest after giving birth to a child out of wedlock.