The name Estella is an Italian name of Latin origin and is derived from the word ‘stella’ meaning ‘star’. The French variant Estelle is more commonly known than Estella.
Estella is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Estella isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Estella ranks 695. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Estella. In the entire USA, approximately 28,202 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Estella. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Estella is an Italian name of Latin origin and is derived from the word ‘stella’ meaning ‘star’. The French variant Estelle is more commonly known than Estella.
Both variants experienced a revival... in the 19th century, probably because of a character named Estella in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' (1860).
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Estella annualy. This means that there have been girls named Estella who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Estella have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Estella even more than any other time: in 1883, it holds its present record of rank #104 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Estella was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Estella has never been ranked higher than #104. In 2022, she rivaled the 461 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 628 girls named Estella were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Estella were born, there have been 73 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Estella has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Estella and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Estella, you can simply say:
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Estella
Estella
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
S
T
E
L
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
S
T
E
L
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Estella sounds like this:
