Estrella
Estrella was given to 477 girls in 2025, #612 among girls’ names; 16,799 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,500 Americans named Estrella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estrella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Estrella mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Estrella is “a female given name, equivalent to English Stella” Its etymology gives the sense “star” (estrella).
From estrella (“star”).
/esˈtɾeʝa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Estrella?
#612 among girls’ names, 2025
Estrella rose from #794 in 2015 to #612 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.20 to 0.30 per 1,000.
1,105 babies in 2005, the peak
Estrella peaked in 2005, when 1,105 girls were given it, #296 among girls’ names. The 477 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 477 | #612 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 481 | #620 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 427 | #683 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 433 | #673 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 389 | #733 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 370 | #739 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 346 | #799 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 312 | #871 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 284 | #931 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 351 | #813 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 355 | #794 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 328 | #843 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 435 | #655 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 521 | #564 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 726 | #433 | 0.41 |
| 2010 | 746 | #422 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 768 | #415 | 0.42 |
| 2008 | 801 | #403 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 821 | #396 | 0.43 |
| 2006 | 1,057 | #313 | 0.56 |
| 2005 | 1,105 | #296 | 0.60 |
| 2004 | 458 | #605 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 534 | #530 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 355 | #704 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 349 | #708 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 339 | #694 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 303 | #739 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 348 | #662 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 257 | #808 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 153 | #1,183 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,234 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,210 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 131 | #1,293 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 122 | #1,343 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,639 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,522 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,904 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,682 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,286 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,727 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,871 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,925 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,322 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,500 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,144 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,151 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,964 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,255 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,882 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,455 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,069 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,094 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,205 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,317 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,170 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,904 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,610 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,139 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,999 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,460 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Estrella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estrella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Estrella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estrella, and how old are they?
16,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,799 Americans ever recorded as Estrella. The median Estrella alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 15,377 people named Estrella (15,333 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 157 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 405 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,960 |
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 Estrella born?
The states with the most babies named Estrella are California, Texas and Arizona, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 116 | #281 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 86 | #390 | 1.9× |
| Arizona | 21 | #335 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 20 | #808 | 0.6× |
| New York | 18 | #872 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | #581 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #616 | 0.8× |
| New Mexico | 11 | #136 | 5.6× |
| Colorado | 11 | #511 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #724 | 0.4× |
Where Estrella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estrella is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1914 it was given 5.6 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 Estrella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Estrella
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 Estrella and names like it
- Compare Estrella and LluviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEstrella peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estrella since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Estrella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Estrella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Estrella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.