Easter

Meaning

In the excerpts, Easter appears as an English name used for a child born at the Christian festival of Easter. The books also place it among other festival-derived names, alongside Christmas, Pascal, and Pentecost. So its name-meaning is directly tied to the feast rather than to an older personal-name root.

Origin

Fun fact

One excerpt notes Easter as a female name in Stretton, Rutland, for two or three generations in the parish registers.