Estil
Estil was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 908 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Estil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,360, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1926, the peak
Estil peaked in 1926, when 36 boys were given it, #1,200 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #6,360 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,004 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,206 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,569 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,938 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,685 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,652 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,919 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,136 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #3,761 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,592 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,936 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,133 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,095 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,042 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,166 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,563 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,588 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,181 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,167 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,482 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,151 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,247 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,176 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,990 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,954 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,838 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,725 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,072 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,604 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,540 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,547 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,255 | 25.2 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,593 | 17.8 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,335 | 24.1 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,609 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,576 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,858 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,298 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,724 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,772 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,881 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,994 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,385 | 25.7 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,200 | 32.4 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,652 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,255 | 30.0 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,561 | 21.9 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,445 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,521 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,661 | 20.7 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,543 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,415 | 25.7 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,548 | 23.8 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,076 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,728 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,510 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,147 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,786 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,433 | 31.0 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,142 | 45.4 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,239 | 40.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Estil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Estil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estil, and how old are they?
An estimated 208 Americans named Estil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 64 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Estil (9 women and girls, 264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 283 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Estil born?
The states with the most babies named Estil are Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Missouri and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 359 | not ranked | 16.3× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| West Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Estil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estil is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 16.3 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 boys’ 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 Estil 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,122 babies since 1880, Estil is the third most given (18% of them).
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 Estil
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 Estil and names like it
- Compare Estil and EstelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEstil peaked in 1926.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estil since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Estil.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Estil alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.