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Easter - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Easter

[ 2 syll. ea-(s)ter, eas-t-er ] The girl name Easter is pronounced as IYSTer KEY. Easter's origin and use are both in the English language. The name is of the meaning the Christian spring festival.

Easter is rare as a baby name for girls. At the modest peak of its usage in 1910, 0.016% of baby girls were given the name Easter. Its ranking then was #496. The baby name has since dropped out of favor, and is now used on an infrequent scale. Out of all girl names in its group, Easter was nonetheless the most regularly used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Easter include the German Isidore, the Spanish Isidra, the Arabic Izdihar, the English, German, and Portuguese Isadora, the English and German Isadore, and the English, German, and Italian Isidora.

KEY: Pronunciation for Easter: IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"


 
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Meaning of Easter