Estrella

13,808 people in the United States were counted with the surname Estrella in the 2020 census, making it the 2,553rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,808
Rank: 2,553rd
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Estrella.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Estrella described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 78.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 9.4%
White, not Hispanic 9.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Estrella

Víctor Estrella (born 1980)Dominican Republic tennis player
Miguel Ángel Estrella (1936–2022)Argentine pianist

People named Estrella with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Estrella

Also a first name

Estrella has been given to 16,799 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2005. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.