Estela

Where Estela comes from

Estela hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1903
    First appearance
    #1,076 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1932
    Peak, #745
    82 babies named Estela — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1967
    Estela Rodríguez born
    Cuban judoka
  4. 1979
    Estela Giménez born
    Spanish rhythmic gymnast
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Estela Giménez · Spanish rhythmic gymnast, born 1979
  • Estela Rodríguez · Cuban judoka, 1967–2022
  • Estela García · Spanish athlete, born 1989
  • Estela Quesada · Costa Rican lawyer, 1924–2011
  • Estela Canto · writer and translator, 1915–1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.