Estelle is an old French name meaning ‘star’, based on the Latin word ‘stella’. It became quite popular in England in the 19th century, perhaps due to the character Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens’ novel ‘Great Expectations’ (1860).
Estelle is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Estelle 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, Estelle ranks 756. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Estelle. In the entire USA, approximately 39,919 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Estelle. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
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 Estelle 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 Estelle 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 Estelle, you can simply say:
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Estelle
Estelle
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
S
T
E
L
L
E
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
E
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. Estelle sounds like this:
