Hester
Medieval variation of Esther, Persian
"star"
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Hester Origin and Meaning
Variation of Asta
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Hester Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
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Famous People Named Hester
- Hester Santlow"England's first ballerina"
- Hester Grenville1st Countess Temple, 2nd Viscountess Cobham, mother of Hester Pitt and British PM George Grenville; grandmother of PM William Grenville
- Hester (Grenville) PittCountess of Chatham, wife of British Prime Minister William Pitt; daughter of Hester Grenville
- Hester StanhopeViscountess Mahon, daughter of William and Hester Pitt
- Hester Lucy StanhopeEnglish traveler and Arabist; daughter of Charles and Hester Stanhope; granddaughter of William and Hester Pitt
- Hester Lynch ThraleWelsh diarist
- Hester Maria (Thrale) ElphinstoneViscountess Keith, English literary correspondent; daughter of Hester Thrale
- Hester BurtonEnglish children's novelist
- Hester Margaret SainsburyEnglish artist, dancer and poet
- Hester Maria PeirceAmerican lawyer and commissioner of the SEC
- Hester Ashmead DavisAmerican archaeologist
- Hester ChaponeEnglish author of women's conduct books
The name Hester in Pop Culture
- Hester Prynnemain character in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hester Collyer/Pagecharacter in Sir Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, The Deep Blue Sea
- Hester Shawcharacter in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series
- Hesterdaemon in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
- Hester FrumpMorticia's mother on TV's "The Addams Family"
- Hester Dethridgeone of Wilkie Collins' "best half,mad villainesses, homicidal keeper of Anne Silvester in her captivity," in "Man and Wife" (1870)
- Hester Rose (Palmer) Cranemother of Frasier and Niles on TV's "Cheers" and "Frasier"
- HesterSue Terhune, character on TV's 'Little House on the Prairie'
- Hestercharacter in Soman Chainani's The School for Good and Evil series
- Hestercharacter in "A woman called Fancy" by Frank Yerby
- Hester Latterlycharacter in Anne Perry's William Monk series
- Hester St Clare aka Hassar San Kahlarcharacter in K.A. Barker's "The Book of Days"
- Hesterangel in Erik Kripke's "Supernatural"
- Hester Ulrichcharacter in TV Series "Scream Queens"
- Hester Greycharacter in Rumer Godden's " The Greengage Summer"
The name Hester in Nameberry Blog Posts
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