Estela

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Эстела in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Estela is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Catalan given name22K records spelled Estela6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Peru

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Estéla, Éstéla, Estèla

• Albanian given name948 records spelled Estela2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States

  Also written Estéla

• Croatian given name767 records spelled Estela8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Spain, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Естела

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Estela is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, variant of Estrella ‘star’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Estrella

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Galician, splinter

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Basque, Estela. Estela batek bere harri zutiarekin . MEIG IX 118 (en colab. con NEtx) .

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 120 years between 1903–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Isabel Martínez de Perónb. 1931ARnot in their usual namefirst female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
• Estela Núñezb. 1949MXMexican singer (born 1949)
• Estela Golovchenkob. 1963UYUruguayan playwright
• Estela Rodríguezb. 1967CUCuban judoka (1967–2022)
• Estela Rennerb. 1973BRBrazilian film director
• Estela Giménezb. 1979ESSpanish rhythmic gymnast
• Estela Ribeirob. 1980BRBrazilian actor
• Estela Garcíab. 1989ESSpanish athlete
• Deysi Cori Tellob. 1993PEnot in their usual namePeruvian chess player
• María Estela Fernándezcostume designer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 861 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Estela?

We estimate roughly 87 thousand people bear Estela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Estela have the most bearers?

Estela is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled estela.

How common is Estela compared with other names?

In Argentina, Estela is the 153rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Estela a male or female name?

Estela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Estela mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Estella or Stella