Eszter
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eszter is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Esther.
- HUHungary1 in 163◐
- DEGermany1 in 102K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 175K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈61K ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 163 ◐
across 11 countries
16K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #45 | 59,971△ | 9.1K rec. | 1 in 163 | 60K | Eszter | 182 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,184 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Eszter | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,182 | 874 rec. | — | — | Eszter | 75 |
| AT Austria | — | 502 | 231 rec. | — | 36 | Eszter | 52 |
| RO Romania | #957 | 501 | 170 rec. | — | — | Eszter | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | 391 | 355 rec. | — | 1 | Eszter | 48 |
| US United States | — | 371 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 897K | 371 | Eszter | 145 |
| SK Slovakia | #734 | 313 | 23 rec. | — | — | Eszter | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 242△ | 52 rec. | 1 in 42K | 242 | Eszter | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 236 | 230 rec. | — | — | Eszter | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 173 | 19 rec. | — | 168 | Eszter | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 144 | 135 rec. | — | 1 | Eszter | 30 |
Roughly 60K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 163). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian741K99%
- English3.5K1%
- German1.8K1%
- French6911%
- Spanish4681%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 740,876 | 99% |
| English | 3,509 | 1% |
| German | 1,826 | 1% |
| French | 691 | 1% |
| Spanish | 468 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 857 |
| 2001 | 995 |
| 2002 | 972 |
| 2003 | 859 |
| 2004 | 898 |
| 2005 | 894 |
| 2006 | 886 |
| 2007 | 844 |
| 2008 | 774 |
| 2009 | 685 |
| 2010 | 622 |
| 2011 | 584 |
| 2012 | 592 |
| 2013 | 436 |
| 2014 | 465 |
| 2015 | 387 |
| 2016 | 454 |
| 2017 | 424 |
| 2018 | 391 |
| 2019 | 357 |
| 2020 | 322 |
| 2021 | 277 |
| 2022 | 236 |
| 2023 | 254 |
| 2024 | 200 |
HU KSH — births by given name — 25 years between 2000–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources 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 2026-09-12 data build · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eszter?
- We estimate roughly 61 thousand people bear Eszter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eszter have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 60 thousand people bear Eszter in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, 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.
- How common is Eszter compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Eszter is the 45th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Eszter a male or female name?
- Eszter 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 does the name Eszter mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 45th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.