Hester

At the 2020 census, 33,543 Americans bore the surname Hester — 1,025th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,911.

By the numbers

People: 33,543
Rank: 1,025th
How common: 1 in 8,911
Per 100,000: 11.2

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hester described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.8%
Black, not Hispanic 21.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hester

Michael Hester (born 1972)Australian soccer referee and New Zealand rugby union footballer
Carl Hester (born 1967)British dressage rider
Devin Hester (born 1982)American football player
Paul Hester (1959–2005)Australian musician

People named Hester with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hester

Also a first name

Hester has been given to 14,764 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.