Estel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Estel

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,374 babies named Estel between 1893 and 1981, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Estel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1981. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 87 babies received it in a single year. Estel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 467 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Estel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 690 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Estel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 276 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Estel in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Estel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,374 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.