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Nesta Nesta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NES-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Princess Nest of Wales (Welsh royal)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "princess nest of wales (welsh royal)".

Nesta is from the Welsh Nesta — diminutive of Nest Welsh form of Agnes (Greek hagnos — pure). Nesta is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh royal heritage. 1085-c. Welsh feminine name reflecting Welsh royal heritage.

Princess Nest of Wales (Welsh). 1085-c.

The name in its native script.

Nesta
Transliteration
Nesta
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɛs.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nesta stands.

Nesta 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.

Nestas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Princess Nest ferch Rhys
Welsh princess + Helen of Wales + daughter of last King of Deheubarth + ancestress of FitzGerald dynasty + Geraldines of Ireland.
c. 1085 – c. 1136 CE

Names connected to Nesta.

The number behind Nesta.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nesta reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.