Given name
Estera
“star”
Estera is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Polish and Slovak.
Original LatinEsther
Meaning & origin
What it means
Estera goes back to Latin Esther, meaning “star.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Estera comes from Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Polish usage, Estera developed from Ἐσθήρ.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Estera through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 116
- 0 boys · 116 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,301 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,301 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 475 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Estera’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Estera has a diminutive in ESTI. In Polish usage, Estera developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἐσθήρ. In Polish usage, Estera has a conventional equivalent in the English form Esther.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Estera has relatives in 20 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Estera comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- EstherLatin, Catalan
- Esteralso known as · German, Italian
- EszterHungarian
- Esteriaequivalent
- Asteraequivalent
- ЕсфирьRussian
- استرPersian
- ԵսթերArmenian
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People named Estera
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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