The ester Surname

ester Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate leading to cultivated land, from Middle High German ezzisch ‘seed field’ + tor ‘gate’.
Jewish: variant of Esther.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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ester Family Facts

Distribution of ester Families in the US in 1920

Number of ester families

47-92

16-46

1-15

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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