Estrela

loc · Latin script

Meaning: star

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

Estrela is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K
  • ESSpain1 in 108K

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈10,000 people, est.

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

star

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Estrela 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 Estrela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈10,000 est.≈1 in 20K830Estrela121
PT Portugal≈1,700 est.≈1 in 5.9KlistedEstrela90
ES Spain4631 in 108K463—54
US United States4411 in 754K525—102
FR France≈230 est.≈1 in 296K18—2
FI Finland≈22 est.≈1 in 252K10——

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Estrela is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Estrêla, Ęştrëlä

  • French name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Estréla, Estrêla

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Estrêla

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Estrêla

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ëstrëlå, Ëstrëlaa

40 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)

Estrela is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, star (apparently fixed star that has its own light and heat)

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

  • Covilhã, Portugal; Serra da Estrela, Portugal

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Catalan, alternative form of estrella (“star”)

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

  • In Galician, star (a luminous celestial body)

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

  • In Aragonese, star (celestial luminary)

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Edite Estrela, b. 1949Estrela Figueiredo, b. 1963Wilson Constantino Novo Estrela, b. 1969Rômulo Estrela, b. 1984Joana Estrela, b. 1990Bento Estrela, b. 2006

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 32 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Estrela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22K#749
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020525#44,135
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—463#8,544
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—463#8,526
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010441#47,966
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000330#57,705
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19616—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19215—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19512—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Estrela mean, and where does it come from?
star Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Estrela have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Estrela in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled estrela.
How common is the name Estrela?
In Spain, the national register counted 463 people named Estrela, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.

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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, “Estrela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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