Estela

Estela: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “star”
Origin: Latin
Say it: ess-TAY-lah · 3 syllables
Used for: Girls

Spanish and Portuguese form of Stella, from Latin stella. The spelling Estela is traditional in Iberian and Latin American use.

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How popular is Estela?

202435.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Estela in 2024115

2024 rank#1,751 girls

Peak year2023

Total US babies since 18809,018

Estela is rising: use over the last five years is 1.6× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Estela

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Stellastar · Latin
Estellastar · Latin
Estellestar · French
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Norahonor · Latin

Estela questions

What does the name Estela mean?

Estela means "star". It comes from Latin. Spanish and Portuguese form of Stella, from Latin stella. The spelling Estela is traditional in Iberian and Latin American use.

Is Estela a boy or girl name?

Estela is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Estela?

115 US babies were named Estela in 2024. Its peak year was 2023.

How do you pronounce Estela?

Estela is usually pronounced ess-TAY-lah.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.