# Estela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/estela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,147 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 9,147 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 72, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 88 | 2,162 |
| 2012 | 88 | 2,153 |
| 2013 | 68 | 2,609 |
| 2014 | 76 | 2,397 |
| 2015 | 96 | 2,044 |
| 2016 | 73 | 2,492 |
| 2017 | 95 | 2,060 |
| 2018 | 87 | 2,168 |
| 2019 | 126 | 1,672 |
| 2020 | 96 | 1,966 |
| 2021 | 112 | 1,809 |
| 2022 | 134 | 1,585 |
| 2023 | 133 | 1,584 |
| 2024 | 115 | 1,757 |
| 2025 | 128 | 1,624 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 3,197 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 11 | 2,235 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

## People named Estela

- Estela Rodríguez, Cuban judoka (1967–2022)
- Estela Quesada, Costa Rican lawyer (1924-2011)
- Isabel Martínez de Perón, first female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.