Meaning: Its source is a Farsi (Persian) expression meaning "Myrtle tree."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.

Popularity: The name Ester ranked 620th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Narrative: This name could come from another Persian term, stara (star), or from the name of the Persian goddess of love and fertility, Ishtar.

The myrtle tree was sacred to the goddess of love known to the Greeks as Aphrodite, and to the Romans as Venus.