Estelle
Estelle reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 117, and has been recorded 56,569 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 573rd. About 14,000 Estelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Estelle boys named Estelle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 56,569
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 117th
- Rank in 2025
- 573rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 56,410 / 159
How old the living Estelles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 56,569 babies given the name since 1880, about 14,000 are alive — 24 in every hundred. Roughly 5,600 of them are children and 5,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French, from Occitan
from Occitan estela (“star”), from Latin stēlla. Name of a third century martyr.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Estelles
- Estelle Harris (1928–2022)American actress
- Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland (born 2012)daughter of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
- Estelle Parsons (born 1927)American actress
- Estelle Getty (1923–2008)American actress
- Estelle Reiner (1914–2008)American actress and singer
- Estelle Nze Minko (born 1991)French handball player
- Estelle Winwood (1883–1984)British actress
- Estelle Taylor (1894–1958)American actress
People named Estelle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Estelle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Estelle is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.6×), South Carolina (2.5×), New York (2.4×), Virginia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Estelle peaked:
Estelle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Estelle | 74,695 | 35th |
| Belgium girls | Estelle | 3,310 | 53rd |
| England and Wales girls | Estelle | 1,335 | 475th |
| Switzerland girls | Estelle | 953 | 83rd |
| Ireland girls | Estelle | 112 | 391st |
| Scotland girls | Estelle | 90 | 337th |
| Poland girls | Estelle | 11 birth registrations | 531st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Estelle: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Estelle | 387 | 0.031% | 169th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Estelle | 532 | 0.122% | 16th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Estelle | 34 | 0.052% | 59th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Estelle is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.15% of children were given it – 54 of them.
Estelle: rank by region
In 2025, Estelle was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Estelle | 56 | 79 |
| Wallonia | Estelle | 174 | 15 |
In 2024, Estelle was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Estelle | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Estelle appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (20th), Province of Flemish Brabant (59th), Province of East Flanders (78th), Province of Antwerp (85th) and Province of Liège (157th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Estelle by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 10 | 332nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Estelle among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Estelle | 162 | 805 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Estelle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.