Estell
Estell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 386th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920155 births
- Best rank
- #386in 1910
- Since 1880
- 4,783people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,232 girls have been named Estell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 155 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 155 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 27%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 551 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Estell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 96 | |
| 1890s | 269 | |
| 1900s | 519 | |
| 1910s | 1,154 | |
| 1920s | 1,129 | |
| 1930s | 507 | |
| 1940s | 274 | |
| 1950s | 164 | |
| 1960s | 68 | |
| 1970s | 39 | |
| 1980s | 13 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Estell was the 576th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Estell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lucilepeak 1917
- Goldiapeak 1918
- Leonepeak 1916
- Violapeak 1918
- Inezpeak 1920
- Henrettapeak 1916
- Zelmapeak 1919
- Bulahpeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.