Estella

Where Estella comes from

Latinized and Italian variant of the French Estelle.
— Wiktionary's entry for Estella
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #111 among girls — 162 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #106
    233 babies named Estella — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    Estella Canziani born
    British portrait and landscape painter, an interior decorator and a travel writer and folklorist
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,105.
  5. 1978
    Estella Warren born
    Canadian actress, model, and synchronized swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Estella Warren · Canadian actress, model, and synchronized swimmer, born 1978
  • Estella Canziani · British portrait and landscape painter, an interior decorator and a travel writer and folklorist, 1887–1964
  • Estella Marie Thompson · American television personality and former prostitute, born 1969
  • Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld · Dutch author, feminist, 1837–1881
  • Estella Leopold · American botanist, 1927–2024

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.