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Stella

Girls' name · Current perennial

Living in the US
~111,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#52 among girls
Births in 2025
4,136 207,288 since 1880
Typical age
11 years, median

Stella popularity over time

Stella rank by birth year, 1880–2025Stella ranked #60 in 1880 and #52 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #38, in 2018.#100#1,000#5218901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2018: 5,164 births recorded as Stella. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. Stella has spent 60 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #52, on 4,136 births.

Babies named Stella per yearPeaks at 5,164 births in 2018.5,164 in 2018018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Stella?

An estimated 111,100 living Americans are called Stella. That is out of 207,288 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Stella?

Half of living Stellas are older than 11, half younger. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Stella a current perennial name.

Your Stella

Ages of living people named StellaHalf of living Stellas are older than 11 and half younger.median 11020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Stella is most common

The name is concentrated in North Dakota, at 2.1× the national rate. New Hampshire, Alaska and Rhode Island follow.

Where Stella is used more than average5 states use the name Stella more than the national average.Alaska: 2.0× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 1.9× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.0× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: 2.1× the national rateNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.0× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Stella is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
North Dakota 185 2.1×
New Hampshire 219 2.0×
Alaska 124 2.0×
Rhode Island 163 2.0×
Vermont 63 1.9×

Stella in England and Wales

ONS recorded 130 births named Stella in 2025, ranking it #333. That is 18% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Stella comes from

From Latin stēlla (“star”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Stella

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Stella McCartney British fashion designer 1971 50
Stella Mwangi Kenyan-Norwegian singer, rapper and songwriter 1986 41
Stella Adler American actress and acting teacher 1901–1992 32
Stella Stevens American actress 1938–2023 32
Stella Gibbons British writer 1902–1989 29
Stella Maxwell British model 1990 29
Stella Kyriakides Cypriot politician 1956 26
Stella Rimington British director of MI5 1935–2025 24
Photo credits (7)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Stella

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Stella was in 2025.

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