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Globally, Gestr (Guest
, Gest
, Gæst
) is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but very infrequently female first name. The first name Gestr is habitual in Albania, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Ethiopia, where it is a rare masculine name, and Saudi Arabia, where it is a rare unisex name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More frequently, Gestr is the last name as well as the forename.
Gestr is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .