Estela

#1,622 for girls in 2025, 128 births

Peak · girls
#745
1932 · 82 births
Debut · girls
1903
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
9,147
since 1903

Estela over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Estela has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #745, 1932girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,622128
2024#1,753115
2023#1,581133
2022#1,583134
2021#1,801112
2020#1,96596
2019#1,668126
2018#2,15987
2017#2,05395
2016#2,47973
2015#2,03996
2014#2,39176
2013#2,59768
2012#2,14588
2011#2,15688
2010#2,47675
2009#2,37581
2008#2,31884
2007#2,25786
2006#2,51273
2005#2,37974
2004#2,17582
2003#2,01989
2002#2,06483
2001#1,94189
2000#1,77698
1999#1,80488
1998#1,76289
1997#1,60699
1996#1,59997
1995#1,70286
1994#1,79880
1993#1,64092
1992#1,64392
1991#1,58496
1990#1,334120
1989#1,61586
1988#1,60081
1987#1,53183
1986#1,52680
1985#1,55278
1984#1,45979
1983#1,41183
1982#1,32594
1981#1,239105
1980#1,276100
1979#1,161114
1978#1,43480
1977#1,25795
1976#1,122106
1975#1,33281
1974#1,133102
1973#1,17592
1972#1,16193
1971#1,24489
1970#1,35477
1969#1,25979
1968#1,19682
1967#1,10389
1966#1,38563
1965#1,10990
1964#1,15391
1963#1,21881
1962#1,23479
1961#1,28874
1960#1,28074
1959#1,07997
1958#1,05199
1957#1,06795
1956#1,15181
1955#902118
1954#969100
1953#98894
1952#831121
1951#96193
1950#842109
1949#776124
1948#90792
1947#1,15061
1946#89786
1945#97962
1944#86278
1943#1,00662
1942#1,06554
1941#1,00653
1940#1,03548
1939#82470
1938#91460
1937#92955
1936#81867
1935#97450
1934#74680
1933#87859
1932#74582
1931#81270
1930#86768
1929#79878
1928#84573
1927#87472
1926#94263
1925#90567
1924#1,25840
1923#1,11147
1922#1,28537
1921#1,05751
1920#1,20640
1919#1,39331
1918#1,29934
1917#1,18337
1916#2,13315
1915#1,47524
1914#1,89613
1913#1,46516
1912#2,1448
1911#1,45011
1910#2,1406
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1907#2,0615
1906#1,7276
1905#1,6966
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1903#1,07611
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First appearance
1903

The first year at least five girls were named Estela! It came in at #1,076, and was given to 11 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1904, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Estela
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 131 spots since 2024 (#1,753 → #1,622)
  • 343 spots since 2020 (#1,965 → #1,622)
  • 417 spots since 2015 (#2,039 → #1,622)
  • Biggest jump: 353 spots in 1925 (#1,258 → #905)
  • Biggest drop: 253 spots in 1947 (#897 → #1,150)
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1903
  • Peaked 1932 at #745 (82 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 26 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1925–1939
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,065
  • Highest: 1 in 12,065 girls born in 2023 were named Estela (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,557 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #745 in 1932, was only 1 in 13,014 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 11.0% of all girls named Estela (1,007) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s28#1,076 (1903)#1,640
1910s195#1,183 (1917)#1,658
1920s568#798 (1929)#1,028
1930s661#745 (1932)#851
1940s720#776 (1949)#968
1950s1,007#831 (1952)#984
1960s802#1,103 (1967)#1,223
1970s929#1,122 (1976)#1,237
1980s869#1,239 (1981)#1,453
1990s939#1,334 (1990)#1,647
2000s839#1,776 (2000)#2,182
2010s872#1,668 (2019)#2,216
2020s718#1,581 (2023)#1,718

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Estela in 1979

girls
#1,161
114 births · 1 in 14,081 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #1,161Estela114
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 14,081 of them was named Estela, which outranked 90.3% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Estela
  1. #1,154Fabiola115
  2. #1,154Samara115
  3. #1,154Shaunta115
  4. #1,161Estela114
  5. #1,161Anika114
  6. #1,161Cicely114
  7. #1,161Polly114
  8. #1,169Coleen113
  9. #1,169Kenyetta113
  10. #1,169Lolita113

Tied with 7 names at #1,161; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,593Breanne#2,125 → #532
  2. ↑ 1,527Loni#2,516 → #989
  3. ↑ 1,287Renata#2,012 → #725
  4. ↑ 985Ashanti#1,862 → #877
  5. ↑ 896Nicolette#1,581 → #685
Fallers
  1. ↓ 392Christel#762 → #1,154
  2. ↓ 312Kenisha#557 → #869
  3. ↓ 297Ariane#887 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 285Imelda#947 → #1,232
  5. ↓ 252Farrah#539 → #791

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979 →