Estela
#1,622 for girls in 2025, 128 births
- Peak · girls
- 1932 · 82 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,147since 1903
Estela over time
Rank among girls' names. Estela has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,622 | 128 |
| 2024 | #1,753 | 115 |
| 2023 | #1,581 | 133 |
| 2022 | #1,583 | 134 |
| 2021 | #1,801 | 112 |
| 2020 | #1,965 | 96 |
| 2019 | #1,668 | 126 |
| 2018 | #2,159 | 87 |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 |
| 2015 | #2,039 | 96 |
| 2014 | #2,391 | 76 |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 |
| 2012 | #2,145 | 88 |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2010 | #2,476 | 75 |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 |
| 2002 | #2,064 | 83 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 |
| 2000 | #1,776 | 98 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 |
| 1997 | #1,606 | 99 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 97 |
| 1995 | #1,702 | 86 |
| 1994 | #1,798 | 80 |
| 1993 | #1,640 | 92 |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 |
| 1991 | #1,584 | 96 |
| 1990 | #1,334 | 120 |
| 1989 | #1,615 | 86 |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 |
| 1987 | #1,531 | 83 |
| 1986 | #1,526 | 80 |
| 1985 | #1,552 | 78 |
| 1984 | #1,459 | 79 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 |
| 1982 | #1,325 | 94 |
| 1981 | #1,239 | 105 |
| 1980 | #1,276 | 100 |
| 1979 | #1,161 | 114 |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 |
| 1977 | #1,257 | 95 |
| 1976 | #1,122 | 106 |
| 1975 | #1,332 | 81 |
| 1974 | #1,133 | 102 |
| 1973 | #1,175 | 92 |
| 1972 | #1,161 | 93 |
| 1971 | #1,244 | 89 |
| 1970 | #1,354 | 77 |
| 1969 | #1,259 | 79 |
| 1968 | #1,196 | 82 |
| 1967 | #1,103 | 89 |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 |
| 1965 | #1,109 | 90 |
| 1964 | #1,153 | 91 |
| 1963 | #1,218 | 81 |
| 1962 | #1,234 | 79 |
| 1961 | #1,288 | 74 |
| 1960 | #1,280 | 74 |
| 1959 | #1,079 | 97 |
| 1958 | #1,051 | 99 |
| 1957 | #1,067 | 95 |
| 1956 | #1,151 | 81 |
| 1955 | #902 | 118 |
| 1954 | #969 | 100 |
| 1953 | #988 | 94 |
| 1952 | #831 | 121 |
| 1951 | #961 | 93 |
| 1950 | #842 | 109 |
| 1949 | #776 | 124 |
| 1948 | #907 | 92 |
| 1947 | #1,150 | 61 |
| 1946 | #897 | 86 |
| 1945 | #979 | 62 |
| 1944 | #862 | 78 |
| 1943 | #1,006 | 62 |
| 1942 | #1,065 | 54 |
| 1941 | #1,006 | 53 |
| 1940 | #1,035 | 48 |
| 1939 | #824 | 70 |
| 1938 | #914 | 60 |
| 1937 | #929 | 55 |
| 1936 | #818 | 67 |
| 1935 | #974 | 50 |
| 1934 | #746 | 80 |
| 1933 | #878 | 59 |
| 1932 | #745 | 82 |
| 1931 | #812 | 70 |
| 1930 | #867 | 68 |
| 1929 | #798 | 78 |
| 1928 | #845 | 73 |
| 1927 | #874 | 72 |
| 1926 | #942 | 63 |
| 1925 | #905 | 67 |
| 1924 | #1,258 | 40 |
| 1923 | #1,111 | 47 |
| 1922 | #1,285 | 37 |
| 1921 | #1,057 | 51 |
| 1920 | #1,206 | 40 |
| 1919 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1918 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1917 | #1,183 | 37 |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 |
| 1915 | #1,475 | 24 |
| 1914 | #1,896 | 13 |
| 1913 | #1,465 | 16 |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 |
| 1911 | #1,450 | 11 |
| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 |
| 1909 | — | |
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| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,076 | 11 |
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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.
Where Estela is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#251 · 1 in 1,416
- California#624 · 1 in 7,693
Best ever in a state: #160 in New Mexico, 1918.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #251 | 79 | 1 in 1,416 |
| California | #624 | 19 | 1 in 7,693 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Estela
- 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)
- Debuted 1903
- Peaked 1932 at #745 (82 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1925–1939
- 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
- 11.0% of all girls named Estela (1,007) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 28 | #1,076 (1903) | #1,640 |
| 1910s | 195 | #1,183 (1917) | #1,658 |
| 1920s | 568 | #798 (1929) | #1,028 |
| 1930s | 661 | #745 (1932) | #851 |
| 1940s | 720 | #776 (1949) | #968 |
| 1950s | 1,007 | #831 (1952) | #984 |
| 1960s | 802 | #1,103 (1967) | #1,223 |
| 1970s | 929 | #1,122 (1976) | #1,237 |
| 1980s | 869 | #1,239 (1981) | #1,453 |
| 1990s | 939 | #1,334 (1990) | #1,647 |
| 2000s | 839 | #1,776 (2000) | #2,182 |
| 2010s | 872 | #1,668 (2019) | #2,216 |
| 2020s | 718 | #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 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 16,570 of them was named Estela, which outranked 86.6% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).