Entry № 3094 · French origin

Estée Estée — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ess-TAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Star (Estée Lauder, cosmetics empire founder)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "star (estée lauder, cosmetics empire founder)".

Estée is from the French Esthée — a creative respelling of Estée Mentzer's original name Josephine Esther Mentzer (1908-2004) — daughter of a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant grocer in Queens, New York. Today Estée Lauder Companies Inc. The Estée Lauder "Youth Dew" bath oil (1953) was the first commercial scented oil sold in a perfume bottle and is credited with creating the modern fine-fragrance industry. Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003). "Telephone, Telegraph, Tell-A-Woman" — her famous marketing maxim. Estée Lauder Companies remains majority family-owned.

Star (Estée Lauder, cosmetics empire founder) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Estée
Transliteration
Estée
Pronunciation
/ ɛsˈteɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Estée stands.

Estée does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Estées before her.

Real people
Estée Lauder
American cosmetics empire founder.
1908 – 2004
In fiction
Estée
Various American media.

Names connected to Estée.

The number behind Estée.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Estée reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.