Given name & surname
Easter
“born during the religious holiday”
Easter is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “born during the religious holiday.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “born during the religious holiday.” Its derivation is not certain.
Where it comes from
A possible origin is American, although the derivation remains uncertain.
How it developed
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Easter through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,579
- 66 boys · 5,513 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 133 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 133 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,745 as a first name in 2020; 11,707 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Easter’s family of names
In English usage, Easter as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with East. Easter has a related form in Eastar. Easter has a related form in Eastera.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Astervariant · English
- Eastereavariant
- Easteriavariant
- Easteravariant
- Eastorvariant
- Eastarvariant
- Eastirvariant
- Eastrevariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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