Estelí

loc · Latin script

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

Estelí is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In English, recorded as A department of Nicaragua.

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  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Esteli 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)

Estelí (a department of Nicaragua)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Estelí is read(measured from records)

Estelí is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English40%

    A department of Nicaragua.

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

  • Spanish17%

    Estelí (a department of Nicaragua)

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Estelí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States——Esteli20
BR Brazil—114——
CR Costa Rica—1——
CL Chile—1——
EC Ecuador—1—1

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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)

Estelí is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Esteli

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Estelí 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

Where does the name Estelí come from?
Estelí (a department of Nicaragua) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Estelí mean?
In English, A department of Nicaragua.
In which country does Estelí have the most bearers?
Estelí is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled esteli.

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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, “Estelí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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