Hester?

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I like traditional / old fashioned names - but is Hester going too far? I’ve always thought it was beautiful!

I like Hester, reminds me of Hester from His Dark Materials and Hester from I, Coriander.

I really don't like Hester! Sounds old and frumpy to me- plus I get the 'uncle fester' vibes a PP got too!

Lettuce- absolutely dreadful 🥬
Hero- also really dislike this, too much for a little kid to live up to!

Absolutely love Honor though. And Esther is nice too.

Hester is great! Very The Scarlet Letter. It's old fashioned, graceful and beautiful.

Well... that's what I think. My husband felt it sounded a bit masculine and harsh. We didn't go for it in the end

I don't like it. It sounds like a hairy monster with asthma.

At the very least it's frumpy, clunky and inelegant.

Honor and Esther are OK

I also prefer Esther. It's lovely, and my Grandmother's name.

Hester has been my all time favourite name since reading AoGG. My husband vetoed it though.

I have a wonderful friend with this name- it’s beautiful, and she is probably one of the kindest most lovely people I know, and so I would endorse the name based on her!

Love Hester and Honor

Maybe I need to bring Honor back into consideration! I thought it was a bit much, so it’s nice to hear so many people like it.

I like Hester

I love Honor and Hero. I think they are less 'brave' than Hester in that they are nice whereas Hester is ick.

(Not sure why Honor would be brave unless you're very conservative).

I like Hester. And Honor.

Hester was our front runner until we met a friend of a friend called Hester who was really annoying! I also love Lettice/Lettis but DH looked at me like I'd gone mad and said we might as well choose Iceberg or Rocket.

I like them! Have you considered Hera instead of Hero? Beautiful name. Hetty as a nickname for Hester is also lovely.

I always think of Hester the molester from Catcher in the Rye. It’s an ugly name, like Bertha and Dorcas.

It's a bit dowdy. A downtrodden Puritan woman.

Honor is a totally normal name to me. No bravery required in picking that one.

Lettice is AWFUL.

MNers always seem to love Hester, god knows why. Of all the beautiful-sounding names out there... why?!

Honor, however, is lovely.

I like it but if you live near Cheltenham don't - there's a Hester's Way there and it's GRIM.

Hester is awful. Honor is much nicer.

I like Hester. I also like Honor and Hero. Not Lettice though, godawful name.

I like it a lot. I can imagine it suiting any angle whereas a lot of the names around at the moment seem to suit little girls more than adults. I also like the other H names. Not Lettis though.

There was a thread about Hester recently you could look up. I really like Hester, it makes me think of The Greengage Summer.

Esther and Honor are both nicer but Hester is fine.

I’d go for Honor as Esther getting quite popular.

I just read this out to my husband and his first thought was "it sounds like a STI" like "you've got a bad case of Hester-itis" 😂😂

I'm also not understanding the love for Honor. It seems really chavvy to me