Meaning not yet researched.
Estela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 128 in 2025. Its best rank was #745 in 1932.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #745 in 1932; #1,624 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Estela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,624 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1932, at #745.
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Estela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 128 girls in 2025. Peak: #745 in 1932 · most girls in one year: 134 (2022).
In 2025, 128 US girls were named Estela, making it the 1,624th most common girls’ name of the year, up 133 places from #1,757 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 115 girls named Estela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #745, reached in 1932. The most girls given the name in a single year was 134, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,044 in 2015 and #842 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Estela in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 11 babies. In all, 9,147 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,007 babies named Estela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,099 US girls were named Estela; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Estela ranked highest in California in 2025, at #804 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Stella (207,288 babies since 1880), Estelle (56,569 babies since 1880) and Estella (42,975 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Estela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 37 | #804 | #1,269 |
| Alabama | 5 | #861 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #954 | — |
| Texas | 26 | #1,074 | #1,206 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,469 | #1,702 |
| New York | 6 | #1,896 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 128 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2015 | 96 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1990 | 120 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1976 | 106 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1974 | 102 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1972 | 93 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1968 | 82 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1965 | 90 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1964 | 91 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1963 | 81 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1962 | 79 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1961 | 74 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1960 | 74 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1957 | 95 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1955 | 118 | #902 | — | — |
| 1954 | 100 | #975 | — | — |
| 1953 | 94 | #988 | — | — |
| 1952 | 121 | #833 | — | — |
| 1951 | 93 | #961 | — | — |
| 1950 | 109 | #842 | — | — |
| 1949 | 124 | #776 | — | — |
| 1948 | 92 | #908 | — | — |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #899 | — | — |
| 1945 | 62 | #981 | — | — |
| 1944 | 78 | #864 | — | — |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1941 | 53 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1940 | 48 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1939 | 70 | #829 | — | — |
| 1938 | 60 | #916 | — | — |
| 1937 | 55 | #934 | — | — |
| 1936 | 67 | #820 | — | — |
| 1935 | 50 | #977 | — | — |
| 1934 | 80 | #746 | — | — |
| 1933 | 59 | #882 | — | — |
| 1932 | 82 | #745 | — | — |
| 1931 | 70 | #814 | — | — |
| 1930 | 68 | #868 | — | — |
| 1929 | 78 | #799 | — | — |
| 1928 | 73 | #847 | — | — |
| 1927 | 72 | #878 | — | — |
| 1926 | 63 | #945 | — | — |
| 1925 | 67 | #908 | — | — |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,087 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).