Estrellita
Estrellita was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,349 among girls’ names; 1,159 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Estrellita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Estrellita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Estrellita?
#10,349 among girls’ names, 2025
Estrellita fell from #7,743 in 2015 to #10,349 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.6 per million.
35 babies in 2006, the peak
Estrellita peaked in 2006, when 35 girls were given it, #4,186 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,349 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,013 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,368 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,753 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,483 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,415 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,747 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,362 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,978 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,362 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,743 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,622 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,503 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,968 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,940 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,392 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,791 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,056 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,401 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,186 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,147 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,574 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,845 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,953 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,709 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,838 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,939 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,151 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,469 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,927 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,078 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,277 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,307 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,120 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,809 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,697 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,397 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,402 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,687 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,404 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,890 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,972 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,881 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,010 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,046 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,435 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,473 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,754 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,015 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,718 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,208 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,995 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,817 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,661 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,177 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,812 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,467 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,904 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,426 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,015 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,725 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,485 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,461 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,341 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,270 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,540 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,019 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,765 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,987 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,265 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,376 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,032 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,905 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,158 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,434 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,702 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,427 | 5.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,599 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,759 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,782 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,922 | 5.0 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,104 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Estrellita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Estrellita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Estrellita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Estrellita, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,159 Americans ever recorded as Estrellita. The median Estrellita alive today is 30 years old; half are between 18 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,517 people named Estrellita (1,510 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,028 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 130 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 180 |
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 Estrellita born?
The states with the most babies named Estrellita are California, Texas and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 160 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Hawaii | 10 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Estrellita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Estrellita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1941 it was given 1.3 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 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 Estrellita 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 Estrellita
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 Estrellita and names like it
- Compare Estrellita and NeenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEstrellita peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Estrellita since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Estrellita.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Estrellita alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.