Estella
Estella was given to 581 girls in 2025, #509 among girls’ names; 42,975 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,700 Americans named Estella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 10 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Estella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Estella is “a female given name from Latin.”
Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Estella?
#509 among girls’ names, 2025
Estella rose from #877 in 2015 to #509 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.18 to 0.36 per 1,000.
638 babies in 1921, the peak
Estella peaked in 1921, when 638 girls were given it, #261 among girls’ names. The 581 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 581 | #509 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 609 | #503 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 489 | #610 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 633 | #499 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 452 | #659 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 375 | #731 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 354 | #785 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 370 | #748 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 352 | #779 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 307 | #907 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 317 | #877 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 280 | #958 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 289 | #889 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 300 | #884 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 234 | #1,056 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 250 | #1,006 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 225 | #1,122 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 206 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 201 | #1,234 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,316 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,175 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 204 | #1,118 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,689 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,824 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,305 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,312 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,350 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,165 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,628 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,063 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,521 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,294 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,087 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,912 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,959 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,235 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,029 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,706 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,723 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,516 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 84 | #1,403 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 90 | #1,365 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,278 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 115 | #1,157 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 101 | #1,232 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 120 | #1,080 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 103 | #1,140 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 125 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 142 | #886 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 101 | #1,106 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 129 | #981 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 150 | #886 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 136 | #907 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 169 | #767 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 174 | #745 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 189 | #715 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 189 | #720 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 215 | #708 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 226 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 223 | #689 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 277 | #605 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 285 | #587 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 274 | #600 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 292 | #583 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 286 | #571 | 0.14 |
| 1956 | 355 | #496 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 310 | #522 | 0.16 |
| 1954 | 364 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1953 | 376 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 386 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1951 | 341 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1950 | 396 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1949 | 428 | #377 | 0.25 |
| 1948 | 399 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1947 | 432 | #384 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 371 | #394 | 0.24 |
| 1945 | 351 | #376 | 0.27 |
| 1944 | 334 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1943 | 368 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1942 | 357 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1941 | 333 | #370 | 0.28 |
| 1940 | 358 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1939 | 370 | #324 | 0.34 |
| 1938 | 333 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1937 | 348 | #336 | 0.33 |
| 1936 | 356 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1935 | 366 | #330 | 0.35 |
| 1934 | 371 | #324 | 0.36 |
| 1933 | 407 | #304 | 0.40 |
| 1932 | 444 | #299 | 0.42 |
| 1931 | 453 | #296 | 0.43 |
| 1930 | 460 | #310 | 0.41 |
| 1929 | 516 | #284 | 0.46 |
| 1928 | 535 | #282 | 0.46 |
| 1927 | 546 | #286 | 0.46 |
| 1926 | 577 | #277 | 0.49 |
| 1925 | 606 | #270 | 0.50 |
| 1924 | 583 | #269 | 0.47 |
| 1923 | 564 | #272 | 0.47 |
| 1922 | 616 | #261 | 0.51 |
| 1921 | 638 | #261 | 0.52 |
| 1920 | 616 | #264 | 0.51 |
| 1919 | 572 | #266 | 0.51 |
| 1918 | 597 | #257 | 0.52 |
| 1917 | 615 | #252 | 0.57 |
| 1916 | 595 | #249 | 0.57 |
| 1915 | 599 | #242 | 0.61 |
| 1914 | 514 | #237 | 0.67 |
| 1913 | 465 | #222 | 0.74 |
| 1912 | 394 | #227 | 0.71 |
| 1911 | 364 | #194 | 0.87 |
| 1910 | 377 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1909 | 318 | #187 | 0.92 |
| 1908 | 317 | #180 | 0.95 |
| 1907 | 309 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1906 | 271 | #184 | 0.92 |
| 1905 | 275 | #181 | 0.94 |
| 1904 | 344 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1903 | 305 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1902 | 283 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1901 | 281 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1900 | 365 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1899 | 288 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1898 | 319 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1897 | 317 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 1896 | 363 | #133 | 1.5 |
| 1895 | 304 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1894 | 335 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1893 | 329 | #129 | 1.5 |
| 1892 | 332 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1891 | 267 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 1890 | 320 | #122 | 1.7 |
| 1889 | 288 | #128 | 1.6 |
| 1888 | 303 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 1887 | 260 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 1886 | 246 | #118 | 1.7 |
| 1885 | 246 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1884 | 222 | #116 | 1.7 |
| 1883 | 233 | #106 | 2.1 |
| 1882 | 198 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1881 | 163 | #111 | 1.8 |
| 1880 | 162 | #111 | 1.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Estella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estella has been given almost only to girls: 55 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Estella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estella, and how old are they?
17,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 41% of the 42,975 Americans ever recorded as Estella. The median Estella alive today is 44 years old; half are between 10 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 17,555 people named Estella (17,516 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,940 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,750 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,380 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Estella born?
The states with the most babies named Estella are Texas, California and Mississippi, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5,843 | #503 | 2.5× |
| California | 3,327 | #519 | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 1,720 | #553 | 2.8× |
| Georgia | 1,545 | #627 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,428 | #602 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 1,158 | #377 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 1,045 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 1,040 | #857 | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,031 | #994 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 987 | #722 | 0.6× |
Where Estella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estella is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Estella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 108,691 babies since 1880, Estella is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 581 of their 1,232 babies (47%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Estella
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Estella and names like it
- Compare Estella and EstelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEstella peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estella since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Estella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Estella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Estella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.