Estella
Estella is ranked 501st among girls in 2024 (608 births). Its best rank was 106th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- #501up 110 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6080.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921638 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1883
- Since 1880
- 42,336people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,336 girls have been named Estella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 638 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 957 → 501).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Estella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,321 | |
| 1890s | 3,174 | |
| 1900s | 3,068 | |
| 1910s | 5,092 | |
| 1920s | 5,797 | |
| 1930s | 3,908 | |
| 1940s | 3,731 | |
| 1950s | 3,380 | |
| 1960s | 2,083 | |
| 1970s | 1,200 | |
| 1980s | 800 | |
| 1990s | 617 | |
| 2000s | 1,557 | |
| 2010s | 3,053 | |
| 2020s | 2,555 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Estella was the 261st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Estella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clarapeak 1918
- Lenapeak 1917
- Lettiepeak 2024
- Dellapeak 1917
- Leliapeak 1919
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Vinapeak 1920
- Mattiepeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.