# Estella (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/estella/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 42,975 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 55 / 42,920 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 446, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.

## 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 | 234 | 1,056 |
| 2012 | 300 | 884 |
| 2013 | 289 | 889 |
| 2014 | 280 | 958 |
| 2015 | 317 | 877 |
| 2016 | 307 | 907 |
| 2017 | 352 | 779 |
| 2018 | 370 | 748 |
| 2019 | 354 | 785 |
| 2020 | 375 | 731 |
| 2021 | 452 | 659 |
| 2022 | 633 | 499 |
| 2023 | 489 | 610 |
| 2024 | 609 | 503 |
| 2025 | 581 | 509 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1889 | 5 | 1,019 |
| 1910 | 6 | 1,469 |
| 1916 | 5 | 4,114 |
| 1934 | 6 | 3,413 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,054 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,713 |
| 1940 | 6 | 3,236 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,912 |
| 1950 | 5 | 3,850 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,126 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,903 |
| 2012 | 27 | 1,210 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,411 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 25 | 1,327 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,911 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,393 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,846 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,692 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,452 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,640 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,541 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## People named Estella

- Estella Warren, Canadian actress, model, and synchronized swimmer
- Estella Canziani, British portrait and landscape painter, an interior decorator and a travel writer and folk
- Estella Marie Thompson, American television personality and former prostitute

## 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.