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For some reason I think of them as completely different names when they really aren't! This is going to sound silly but I didn't even make the connection that they were related until just now, haha. I muchhhh prefer Hester, but that might just be because Hester has not been as historically popular in the U.S. and therefore associated as a quintessential Old Lady Name. That normally wouldn't turn me off, but I can't really get on board with Esther.

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Basically, Hester has an evenness about it that Esther does not have IMO. It looks cleaner and has cooler literary associations. It's kind of fun but also kind of ugly. Fungly.