Estelá

given name · Latin script

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

Estelá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Estelá is also written Эстела in Cyrillic.

  • ARArgentina≈1 in 580(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 590
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 790

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Estelá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

#698 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
325 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 577 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Estelá in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
EsteláLatin(measured from records)
ЭстелаEstelá in Cyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Estela in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, PE Peru and 5 more.

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)
Derivation of Estelá: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Estelá
  1. Latinstēlla(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Italic*stērolā(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂stḗr(measured from records)

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Estelá 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 Estelá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#97≈160,000 est.≈1 in 8241.2KEstela183
AR Argentina#142≈79,000 est.≈1 in 577942Estela107
BR Brazil#62543,5601 in 4.9K44KEstela155
PH Philippines#540≈31,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Estela76
PE Peru#185≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Estela68
PY Paraguay#47≈8,700 est.≈1 in 792—Estela35
UY Uruguay#54≈5,700 est.≈1 in 591—Estela49
SV El Salvador#54≈5,400 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Estela27

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Estelá 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 Estelá mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
Is Estelá a male or female name?
Estelá 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.
Which countries have the most people named Estelá?
Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Estelá in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled estela. After it come Argentina, Brazil, Philippines and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Estelá?
In Brazil, the national register counted 43,560 people named Estelá in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Estelá compared with other names?
In Mexico, Estelá is the 97th most common given name of 193,485 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, “Estelá” — ranked 89th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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