Steĺla

given name · Latin script

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

Steĺla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin stella (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 783(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 3.6K
  • AMArmenia≈1 in 1.3Kas Ստելլա

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 Steĺla 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.

United States (measured from records)

93,368 people, 2020

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
483 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 783 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SteĺlaLatin(measured from records)
ՍտելլաArmenian(measured from records)
ΣτελλαGreek(measured from records)
스텔라Hangul(measured from records)
სთელლაGeorgian(measured from records)
СтеллаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stella in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland and Ստելլա in AM Armenia.

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 Steĺla: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Steĺla
  1. Latinstella“star”(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂stḗr(measured from records)

Ultimately from Latin stella (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

Sources 11

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Steĺla 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 Steĺla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#60693,3681 in 3.6K93KStella483
BR Brazil—17,5271 in 12K18K—8
SE Sweden#48713,0231 in 78313KStella60
MD Moldova—4,587as Stela1 in 7334.6K—10
FI Finland—3,4271 in 1.6K3.9KStella34
AM Armenia#244≈2,300 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Ստելլա33
HR Croatia—1,543as Stela1 in 2.7K1.7K—3

93,368 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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 Steĺla 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 Steĺla mean, and where does it come from?
Ultimately from Latin stella (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 9 other sources.
Is Steĺla a male or female name?
Steĺla 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 Steĺla have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 93 thousand people named Steĺla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stella.
Where is Steĺla most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Steĺla is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 783 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Steĺla?
In the United States, the national register counted 93,368 people named Steĺla in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
How common is Steĺla compared with other names?
In the United States, Steĺla is the 606th most common given name of 2,815,431 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, “Steĺla” — the 606th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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