Étoile

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The leading ballet dancer in a company

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Étoile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 32K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 545K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,500 people, est.

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Etoile in US United States.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The leading ballet dancer in a company

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Étoile counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Étoile is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#636≈3,500 est.≈1 in 12K—Étoile3
CM Cameroon—≈870 est.≈1 in 32K—Étoile2
FR France—≈130 est.≈1 in 545K52Étoile33
US United States—1121 in 3M107Etoile68
MA Morocco—≈32 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Étoile3
BE Belgium—≈11 est.≈1 in 1M1Étoile3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Étoile is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Etoile

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Etoile

19 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(measured from records)

Étoile is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, star

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, étoile (leading dancer)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Étoile under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Étoile mean, and where does it come from?
The leading ballet dancer in a company Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Étoile a male or female name?
Étoile 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.
In which country does Étoile have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Étoile in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled étoile.
How common is the name Étoile?
In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Étoile in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
How common is Étoile compared with other names?
In Algeria, Étoile is the 636th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Étoile” — the 636th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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