Estell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Estell

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,232 babies named Estell between 1880 and 1983, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Estell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 155 babies received it in a single year. Estell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 551 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Estell performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Estell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 445 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Estell in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Estell 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 4,232 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.