Estela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Estela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 47th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Estella or Stella.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 612(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 692
- PYParaguay≈1 in 917
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #698 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 612 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Estella or Stella
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Estela 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #142 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 942 | Estela | 107 |
| BR Brazil | #625 | 43,560 | 1 in 4.9K | 44K | Estela | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #540 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Estela | 76 |
| US United States | — | 23,239 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Estela | 325 |
| PE Peru | #185 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Estela | 68 |
| PY Paraguay | #47 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 917 | — | Estela | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #54 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Estela | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | #54 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 692 | — | Estela | 49 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Estela is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, variant of Estrella ‘star’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Estrella
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Galician, splinter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Estela. Estela batek bere harri zutiarekin . MEIG IX 118 (en colab. con NEtx) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Isabel Martínez de Perónb. 1931ARnot in their usual namefirst female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
- Estela Núñezb. 1949MXMexican singer (born 1949)
- Estela Golovchenkob. 1963UYUruguayan playwright
- Estela Rodríguezb. 1967CUCuban judoka (1967–2022)
- Estela Rennerb. 1973BRBrazilian film director
- Estela Giménezb. 1979ESSpanish rhythmic gymnast
- Estela Ribeirob. 1980BRBrazilian actor
- Estela Garcíab. 1989ESSpanish athlete
- Deysi Cori Tellob. 1993PEnot in their usual namePeruvian chess player
- María Estela Fernándezcostume designer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 82 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 942 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 849 | #29,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 741 | #31,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 554 | #37,728 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Estela mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Estella or Stella Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Estela a male or female name?
- Estela 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.
- What are other forms of the name Estela?
- In the etymology graph, Stella, Estelle and Estella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Estela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Estela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled estela.
- How common is the name Estela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43,560 people named Estela in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Estela compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Estela is the 142nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Estela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/estelaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Estela” — the 142nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.