Estill
Estill was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 1,253 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estill by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Estill?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,168, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1919, the peak
Estill peaked in 1919, when 43 boys were given it, #1,038 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #9,168 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,099 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,565 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,361 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,274 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,298 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,734 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,461 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,213 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,207 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | #4,570 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,404 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,403 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,794 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,655 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,843 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,856 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,920 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,137 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,561 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,764 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,248 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,555 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,417 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,542 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,475 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,807 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,589 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,576 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,930 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,056 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,842 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,664 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,528 | 13.1 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,528 | 13.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,594 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,591 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,471 | 16.1 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,819 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,782 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,112 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,593 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,348 | 22.5 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,652 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,478 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,965 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,739 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,419 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,364 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,138 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,577 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,630 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,334 | 27.1 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,531 | 22.2 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,440 | 23.4 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,236 | 30.5 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,504 | 23.0 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,712 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,521 | 23.0 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,149 | 35.4 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,260 | 31.0 |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,038 | 43.9 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,159 | 35.5 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,122 | 38.9 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,080 | 40.4 |
| 1915 | 41 | #985 | 48.3 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,569 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,181 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,108 | 41.9 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,317 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,672 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,332 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,143 | 45.4 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,046 | 52.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,296 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,265 | 39.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,102 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,213 | 39.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,151 | 41.8 |
| 1894 | 6 | #995 | 51.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #944 | 47.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Estill a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estill has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Estill: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estill, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Estill and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 58 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 368 people named Estill (13 women and girls, 355 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 Estill born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 837 | not ranked | 29.0× |
Where Estill is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estill is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 29.0 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 Estill 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, Estill is the second most given (24% 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 Estill
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 Estill and names like it
- Compare Estill and EstelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEstill peaked in 1919.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estill since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Estill.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Estill alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.