Eszter
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Nyilvántartó, 2025
/ˈɛstɛr/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Eszter is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 163(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 4.9Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 12Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
59,971 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eszter 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #50 | 59,971 | 1 in 163 | 60K | Eszter | 188 |
| RO Romania | #966 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Eszter | 42 |
| SK Slovakia | #779 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Eszter | 37 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 1 | Eszter | 88 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 36 | Eszter | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Eszter | 26 |
59,971 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Eszter is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hungarian form of ESTHER .
as a word
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)- Eszter Pécsib. 1898HUHungarian architect, structural engineer (1898–1975)
- Esther Jungreisb. 1936HUnot in their usual nameHolocaust survivor and religious outreach leader (1936–2016)
- Eszter Perényib. 1943HUHungarian violinist
- Eszter Csákányib. 1953HUHungarian actress (1953–)
- Eszter Balintb. 1966HUAmerican singer-songwriter and actress
- Eszter Ónodib. 1973HUHungarian actress
- Eszter Ballab. 1980HUHungarian actress
- Eszter Krutzlerb. 1981HUweightlifter
- Eszter Tompab. 1984RORomanian actor
- Eszter Muharib. 2002HUHungarian fencer
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 60K | #16 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2001 | 995 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2002 | 972 | — |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 948 | #7 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2004 | 898 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 894 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 886 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2003 | 859 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2000 | 857 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 844 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 774 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 685 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Eszter mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Esther Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Eszter a male or female name?
- Eszter is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- How do you pronounce Eszter?
- In Hungarian /ˈɛstɛr/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Eszter have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 60 thousand people named Eszter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eszter.
- Where is Eszter most common?
- Eszter is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Eszter?
- In the etymology graph, Esther, Essie and Esta are forms of the same name in other languages; Eszti is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Eszter?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 59,971 people named Eszter in 2025, about 1 in 163 residents.
- How common is Eszter compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Eszter is the 50th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eszterThe 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, “Eszter” — the 50th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.