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Estelle vs Estherlene

American parents have registered 56,569 Estelles since 1880, against 13 Estherlenes. Estelle is still ahead, with 523 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Estelle against Estherlene, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Estelle Estherlene

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Estelle has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1932, when Estelle had 754 and Estherlene had 8.

Side by side

  Estelle Estherlene
Total US births 56,56913
Most in one year 1,7938
Babies in 2025 523under 5
Estimated living today 14,0002
Median age today 3793
Peak year 19151932
Best rank 117th girls3,274th girls
Rank in 2025 573rdunranked
First recorded 18801932
Girls / boys 56,410 / 15913 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Estherlenes alive today are over 93; half the Estelles are over 37. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Estelle and Estherlene.