Meaning not yet researched.
Estrella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 477 in 2025. Its best rank was #296 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #296 in 2005; #612 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Estrella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#612 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #296.
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Estrella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 477 girls in 2025. Peak: #296 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 1,105 (2005).
In 2025, 477 US girls were named Estrella, making it the 612th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #620 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 481 girls named Estrella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #296, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,105. For comparison, it was #794 in 2015 and #2,812 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Estrella in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 16,799 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,587 babies named Estrella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,870 US girls were named Estrella; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 481. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,370 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Estrella ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #136 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), Estella (42,975 babies since 1880) and Sidra (1,883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Estrellita are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Estrellita (1,159).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Estrella 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 11 | #136 | #409 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #271 | — |
| California | 116 | #281 | #475 |
| Arizona | 21 | #335 | #371 |
| Texas | 86 | #390 | #467 |
| Utah | 9 | #454 | #643 |
| Iowa | 7 | #455 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #511 | #642 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #536 | #776 |
| Nevada | 5 | #550 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #559 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #577 | #724 |
| Illinois | 17 | #581 | #702 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #616 | #1,137 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #645 | #488 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #724 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #750 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #808 | #1,208 |
| Washington | 7 | #842 | #667 |
| New York | 18 | #872 | #1,521 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #973 | #984 |
| Missouri | 5 | #976 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,089 | #797 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,185 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,256 | #840 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 477 | #612 | — | — |
| 2024 | 481 | #620 | — | — |
| 2023 | 427 | #683 | — | — |
| 2022 | 433 | #673 | — | — |
| 2021 | 389 | #733 | — | — |
| 2020 | 370 | #739 | — | — |
| 2019 | 346 | #799 | — | — |
| 2018 | 312 | #871 | — | — |
| 2017 | 284 | #931 | — | — |
| 2016 | 351 | #813 | — | — |
| 2015 | 355 | #794 | — | — |
| 2014 | 328 | #843 | — | — |
| 2013 | 435 | #655 | — | — |
| 2012 | 521 | #564 | — | — |
| 2011 | 726 | #433 | — | — |
| 2010 | 746 | #422 | — | — |
| 2009 | 768 | #415 | — | — |
| 2008 | 801 | #403 | — | — |
| 2007 | 821 | #396 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,057 | #313 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,105 | #296 | — | — |
| 2004 | 458 | #605 | — | — |
| 2003 | 534 | #530 | — | — |
| 2002 | 355 | #704 | — | — |
| 2001 | 349 | #708 | — | — |
| 2000 | 339 | #694 | — | — |
| 1999 | 303 | #740 | — | — |
| 1998 | 348 | #662 | — | — |
| 1997 | 257 | #808 | — | — |
| 1996 | 153 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1992 | 131 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1991 | 122 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,554 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,278 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,095 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,389 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,856 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,319 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,921 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,257 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,813 | — | — |
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).