Esta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of Entertainment Services and Technology Association
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛstə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 246K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of Entertainment Services and Technology Association.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esta is read(measured from records)
Esta is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
Acronym of Entertainment Services and Technology Association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili16%
Esther (book of the Old Testament of the Bible)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #808 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Esta | 16 |
| US United States | — | 1,354 | 1 in 246K | 1.3K | Esta | 211 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Esta | 18 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Esta | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 206K | listed | Esta | 66 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 6 | — | 9 |
| AL Albania | — | 52 | 1 in 59K | 52 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., neuere englische Neben form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Latinate respelling of Esther.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: Latinate respelling of ESTHER .
as a word
In btx, an ell, that is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esta Veskib. 1924EEEstonian botanist (1924-2024)
- Esta Solerb. 1947UScampaigner to end violence against women
- Esta-Laine Nahkurb. 1966EEEstonian veterinarian (born 1966)
- Estinb. 1973EEnot in their usual nameEstonian singer (born 1973)
- Esta Dreneskub. 2002ALbadminton player
- Esta SterneckATAustrian molecular biologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,000 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,429 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esta mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of Entertainment Services and Technology Association. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Esta a male or female name?
- Esta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Esta?
- In the etymology graph, Esther, Ester and Essie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Esta?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛstə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Esta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Esta in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esta.
- How common is the name Esta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,354 people named Esta in 2020, about 1 in 246 thousand residents.
- How common is Esta compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Esta is the 808th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/estaThe 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, “Esta” — the 808th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.