Stella

Stella is the 8,428th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,763 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 79,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,763
Rank: 8,428th
How common: 1 in 79,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Hispanic or Latino 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Stella

Frank Stella (1936–2024)American painter and printmaker
Beniamino Stella (born 1941)Italian Roman-Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Andrea Stella (born 1971)Italian engineer
Antonietta Stella (1929–2022)singer
Joseph Stella (1877–1946)American artist
Martina Stella (born 1984)Italian actress
Lennon Stella (born 1999)Canadian singer and actress
Jacques Stella (1596–1657)French Baroque painter

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

Surnames like Stella

Also a first name

Stella has been given to 207,288 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2018. 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.