Esther
A Hebrew name meaning "star". Fewer than 400 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, and it fades further with each passing year.
Esther Pronunciation
What Esther means
Where Esther comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Esther is a Hebrew name, and the meaning attached to it, star, most likely reaches back to the Persian sitareh. Scholars also connect it to Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of the morning star. The Hebrew Bible gives the name its first great bearer: Esther, the queen who risked her life to save the Jewish people, a story read aloud every year at Purim.
The Polish form is Estera.
On a school register in Poland you might find an Estera between a Marta and an Ewa, her name-day marked in the calendar. The sense of "star" was never a plain translation of some Hebrew root; it grew from older words in older languages, then settled onto a Jewish name that Poland has long known. In Polish the meaning stays short and clear: gwiazda.
How many people are named Esther
1 in 60117 women in Poland is named Esther. 375 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1533 among female names.
Esther's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Esther is most popular
Esther is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Esther as a middle name
Esther is a first name for 375 women in Poland and a middle name for another 266, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 415th, between Ella (266) and Lubomira (264).
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#413 Scholastyka267
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#414 Ella266
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#415 Esther266
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#416 Lubomira264
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#417 Dobrochna261