Meaning and history
Estelle comes from an Old French name meaning "star," ultimately from Latin stella. Rare in the medieval English-speaking world, it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps through Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (1860).
20062006: 96 births, rank #2,050
2007: 106 births, rank #1,940
2008: 109 births, rank #1,927
2009: 159 births, rank #1,463
2010: 158 births, rank #1,438
20112011: 199 births, rank #1,204
2012: 265 births, rank #958
2013: 258 births, rank #974
2014: 301 births, rank #905
2015: 344 births, rank #815
20162016: 343 births, rank #837
2017: 348 births, rank #789
2018: 326 births, rank #833
2019: 351 births, rank #789
2020: 340 births, rank #799
20212021: 380 births, rank #750
2022: 405 births, rank #723
2023: 398 births, rank #710
2024: 462 births, rank #641
20252025: 523 births, rank #573
Estelle rose from #641 to #573 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1915, with 1,784 births.