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Easter

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Easter has been given to 5,579 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Easter, 2017

1 in 715,000

Easter over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Easter: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Easter means

Easter is a given name.

The naming story behind Easter

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Easter in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 215.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Teu. Easter child”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Easter, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,513 girls were recorded with the name Easter between 1880 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 133 in 1925; its best national rank was #415 in 1883.

In the United States, 66 boys were recorded with the name Easter between 1914 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #3,374 in 1933.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Easter?

Easter had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Easter sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Easter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Easters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Easter was born before 1928 — so the typical Easter is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,172
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1920s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (1,141).

Is Easter rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (133)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#415
1883

Spellings of Easter

Easter is not the most common spelling — Esther is, with 81.0% against Easter's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Easter is used

Across 1910–2025, Easter was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 22,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,348
  2. 2Alabama1 in 7,692
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 8,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 9,091
  5. 5Georgia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 12,500
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 16,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Easter has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Easter around the world

Where Easter ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Easter by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#415
1883
Peak year
1925
133 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
5,513
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,374
1933
Peak year
1928
7 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Easter

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KarterEastonCarterWynterEastynHesterHunterWinterWalterPorterEsterJupiterLesterAsterFosterPeterVesterSisterEastlynChesterSlaterEtterDexterWynnter

Names with a curve like Easter

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Easter, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlberthaIdellaZonaLueLovieRayMyrtisLuveniaDelphiaHenryLavadaRosia

Sibling names for Easter

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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