Stella — #49 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Stella

The Social Security Administration has registered 202,743 babies named Stella between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Stella currently holds the #49 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 5,163 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Stella performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 44,219 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Stella shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14,763 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Stella in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Stella 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 202,743 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.