Female first name (English, German, French, Hebrew): Esther; star; Old Persian (Old Testament); star = the star, in the Bible is Esther, a Jewish wife of a Persian king (see Book of Esther, AT); next to (?) 'star' (asterisk) is also 'Ishtar' (Name of a Persian goddess) as a possible origin Esther (Actually, 'Esther) is a conjugation of the (Hebrew) verb Satar - hide.