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Hestia

#9,698 in 2025Girls' name

Hearth, fireside

Hestia has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #9,698 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Hestia, 2025

1 in 332,000

Hestia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hestia: meaning, origin, and history

Hearth, fireside

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hestia means

Hestia means “hearth, fireside”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Hestia between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,216 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,006 in 2020 to #9,698 in 2025.

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 Hestia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,698
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hestia 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hestia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hestias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hestia was born before 2022 — so the typical Hestia is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
73.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 73.6% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Hestia 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
−1,061
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,308
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,216
2023

Spellings of Hestia

Hestia is not the most common spelling — Hester is, with 26.9% against Hestia's 0.14%.

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.

Hestia around the world

Where Hestia 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
    2019–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #2,750
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hestia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,698
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,308
Best rank ever
#8,216
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Hestia

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

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Sibling names for Hestia

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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