Name profile

Estella

Latinate form of Estelle.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#509

Meaning and history

Latinate form of Estelle, this name is best known from Estella Havisham, the heroine in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations (1860).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 178 births, rank #1,314
2007: 201 births, rank #1,233
2008: 206 births, rank #1,227
2009: 225 births, rank #1,121
2010: 250 births, rank #1,004
20112011: 234 births, rank #1,054
2012: 300 births, rank #884
2013: 289 births, rank #889
2014: 280 births, rank #956
2015: 317 births, rank #877
20162016: 307 births, rank #905
2017: 352 births, rank #779
2018: 370 births, rank #747
2019: 354 births, rank #784
2020: 375 births, rank #731
20212021: 452 births, rank #659
2022: 633 births, rank #499
2023: 489 births, rank #610
2024: 609 births, rank #502
20252025: 581 births, rank #509

Estella moved from #503 to #509 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 638 births.