Héster
given name · Latin script
Héster is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Latin form of Esther.
- USUnited States1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 120K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
35,642 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hester in US United States, PA Panama.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Latin form of Esther.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Héster counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 35,642 | 1 in 9.3K | 36K | Hester | 119 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 144 | 1 in 120K | 5.7K | — | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | — | 2 |
| PA Panama | #746 | — | — | — | Hester | 6 |
35,642 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Héster mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin form of Esther. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Héster have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Héster, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hester.
- Where is Héster most common?
- Héster is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Héster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,642 people named Héster in 2010, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Héster compared with other names?
- In Panama, Héster is the 746th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9sterThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Héster” — the 746th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.