Just for fun and out of curiosity.
http://wiki.name.com/en/Hester
Pronunciation: HESS-tur
Meaning: star, evening star
Related Names: Esther, Hess, Hessie, Hessy, Hestia, Hettie, Hetty
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
The name Hester in an English variant of Esther and is thought to be of medieval origin. It is believed that for many years the two forms could be interchanged as “the addition or dropping of h- being commonplace” in many words. Now, however, they are considered to be two completely different names. Although largely an English name and with English etymological roots, there are records of Hester in Arabic, Greek and Scandinavian. All seem to mean some version of “star” or “evening star.”
POPULARITY
According to the Social Security Administration, Hester has not been one of the 1000 most popular names in the United States since 1950. In that year, Hester ranked 889th after a steady decline from its heyday during the first 15 years of the 20th Century. In 1910, Hester ranked 264th, the highest ranking it achieved in the past 100 years. Since that period, Hester averaged a loss of approximately 100 spaces per decade until the 1930s and 1940s when its popularity declined precipitously. In 1940, Hester ranked as the 609th most popular name in the country. By 1950, it ranked 889th. In 1951, it had vanished from the list of the 1000 most popular names in the country.
FACTS
Hester is the name of the unseen and deceased character named as Martin Crane's wife on the long running television situation comedy "Frasier." Martin is Frasier and Niles Crane's father and is played by John Mahoney.
Hester Prynne is the main character and protagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's important novel The Scarlet Letter. She was the unwed mother in Puritan America who refused to reveal the name of her lover and the father of her illegitimate child. It was also a 1995 movie.
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Hester.html
Gender: Girl
Origin: Persian
Meaning: Star
Pronunciation: (HESS ter)
Form of: Esther
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Hester
Hester \he(s)-ter\ as a girl's name is pronounced HESS-ter. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Hester is "star". Variant of Esther. Literary: Hester Prynne is the much put-upon heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlett Letter".
Hester has 4 variant forms: Hesther, Hestia, Hettie and Hetty.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/hester
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: English, Biblical Latin
PRONOUNCED: HES-tər (English)
Meaning & History
Latin form of ESTHER. Like Esther, it has been used in England since the Protestant Reformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne used it for the heroine of his novel 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850), Hester Prynne.
Related Names
DIMINUTIVE: Hettie (English)
OTHER LANGUAGES: Esther, Ashtoreth (Biblical), Esther, Astarte (Biblical Greek), 'Ester, 'Ashtoret (Biblical Hebrew), Ester (Czech), Esther (Dutch), Ester, Esteri (Finnish), Esther (French), Eszter (Hungarian), Esther (Jewish), Estera (Lithuanian), 'Ashtoret, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ishtar (Near Eastern Mythology), Estera (Polish), Ester (Portuguese), Esfir, Yesfir (Russian), Ester (Scandinavian), Estera (Slovak), Ester, Esther (Spanish)
