Estel

Where Estel comes from

Estel 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.

Along the way
  1. 1893
    First appearance
    #768 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Estel Crabtree born
    American baseball player and coach
  3. 1905
    Peak, #636
    14 babies named Estel — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,646.
  5. 1987
    Estel Solé i Casadellà born
    Catalan actress and poet
  6. 2014
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Estel Crabtree · American baseball player and coach, 1903–1967
  • Estel Solé i Casadellà · Catalan actress and poet, born 1987

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.