Last Name HESTER

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Meaning Probably the old 'Hayrester' or 'Hairster.' 'Hayre,' a garment made of goat's hair. Hayrester, a maker of hayres. Hayresters, workers in horsehair. The hair garment was seemingly worn for mortification of the flesh by nuns and other religious persons. Also the name could be comeing from old French 'hasteur,' a hastiler, one who superintended the roasts.
Local: Of the Ester or Estre. Not from Hester or Esther. Estres, the inward parts of a building, chnumbers, walks, passages in a garden. Hester and Easter seems to be modern imitative garbs of the word.
Origin English, Jewish, German, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 919 (2000 US census) 823 (1990 US census)
Count 34,675 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 75.85%, or 26301 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 20.78%, or 7205 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.42%, or 146 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.37%, or 128 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.45%, or 503 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.14%, or 395 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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