Estle — boys' name

What the Data Says About Estle

The Social Security Administration has registered 676 babies named Estle between 1896 and 1960, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Estle currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Estle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 80 additional births since 1897.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Estle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 218 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Estle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Estle in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Estle 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 676 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.