Estelle
Estelle is ranked 636th among girls in 2024 (462 births). Its best rank was 106th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- #636up 74 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4620.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19151,784 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1911
- Since 1880
- 55,887people given the name
The story in the numbers
55,887 girls have been named Estelle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 1,784 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 905 → 636).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 96 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Estelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,841 | |
| 1890s | 3,485 | |
| 1900s | 5,259 | |
| 1910s | 13,807 | |
| 1920s | 12,279 | |
| 1930s | 5,704 | |
| 1940s | 3,225 | |
| 1950s | 1,930 | |
| 1960s | 1,077 | |
| 1970s | 589 | |
| 1980s | 455 | |
| 1990s | 393 | |
| 2000s | 966 | |
| 2010s | 2,892 | |
| 2020s | 1,985 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Estelle was the 117th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Estelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hortensepeak 1919
- Elmapeak 1918
- Elviepeak 1917
- Herminapeak 1916
- Agathapeak 1918
- Albinapeak 1917
- Inezpeak 1920
- Mablepeak 1922
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.