Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GreekStella is a female given name. It is derived from the Latin word for star. It has been in use in English-speaking countries since it was first used by Philip Sidney in Astrophel and Stella, his 1580s sonnet sequence.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Stella yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Barely anything changed for Stella over the past decade — up just 1%, to 4,264 births in 2024, one of the smallest ten-year moves covered anywhere in this dataset. 2018 was its high-water mark: 5,163 births, #38 nationally.
This name's records stretch back to 1880, quiet through most of the 20th century before its 2010s climb.
Fashion designer Stella McCartney and actor Stella Adler keep the name visible today; Australian author Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in the 1870s, gives it an older literary root few would expect.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 414 | #60 |
| 1881 | 416 | #64 |
| 1882 | 506 | #61 |
| 1883 | 529 | #59 |
| 1884 | 584 | #60 |
| 1885 | 649 | #57 |
| 1886 | 702 | #57 |
| 1887 | 664 | #59 |
| 1888 | 775 | #64 |
| 1889 | 891 | #55 |
| 1890 | 924 | #56 |
| 1891 | 867 | #59 |
| 1892 | 972 | #59 |
| 1893 | 926 | #63 |
| 1894 | 1,035 | #61 |
| 1895 | 1,026 | #60 |
| 1896 | 1,054 | #60 |
| 1897 | 966 | #64 |
| 1898 | 1,062 | #65 |
| 1899 | 975 | #62 |
| 1900 | 1,177 | #68 |
| 1901 | 928 | #65 |
| 1902 | 1,075 | #63 |
| 1903 | 1,016 | #65 |
| 1904 | 1,026 | #68 |
| 1905 | 1,097 | #67 |
| 1906 | 1,141 | #65 |
| 1907 | 1,150 | #70 |
| 1908 | 1,216 | #67 |
| 1909 | 1,188 | #70 |
| 1910 | 1,319 | #72 |
| 1911 | 1,422 | #72 |
| 1912 | 1,834 | #73 |
| 1913 | 2,205 | #69 |
| 1914 | 2,771 | #65 |
| 1915 | 3,657 | #64 |
| 1916 | 3,818 | #63 |
| 1917 | 3,872 | #62 |
| 1918 | 3,928 | #67 |
| 1919 | 3,700 | #70 |
| 1920 | 3,492 | #82 |
| 1921 | 3,335 | #86 |
| 1922 | 3,166 | #88 |
| 1923 | 2,956 | #96 |
| 1924 | 2,752 | #105 |
| 1925 | 2,402 | #114 |
| 1926 | 2,191 | #121 |
| 1927 | 2,112 | #123 |
| 1928 | 1,803 | #132 |
| 1929 | 1,690 | #137 |
| 1930 | 1,570 | #140 |
| 1931 | 1,419 | #142 |
| 1932 | 1,340 | #150 |
| 1933 | 1,123 | #164 |
| 1934 | 1,095 | #169 |
| 1935 | 945 | #187 |
| 1936 | 967 | #186 |
| 1937 | 916 | #195 |
| 1938 | 877 | #200 |
| 1939 | 954 | #188 |
| 1940 | 962 | #192 |
| 1941 | 1,023 | #184 |
| 1942 | 1,126 | #188 |
| 1943 | 1,182 | #188 |
| 1944 | 1,017 | #198 |
| 1945 | 993 | #198 |
| 1946 | 1,162 | #209 |
| 1947 | 1,334 | #200 |
| 1948 | 1,344 | #201 |
| 1949 | 1,220 | #215 |
| 1950 | 1,113 | #226 |
| 1951 | 1,060 | #240 |
| 1952 | 996 | #248 |
| 1953 | 956 | #263 |
| 1954 | 852 | #292 |
| 1955 | 794 | #305 |
| 1956 | 766 | #316 |
| 1957 | 731 | #338 |
| 1958 | 683 | #353 |
| 1959 | 639 | #378 |
| 1960 | 617 | #383 |
| 1961 | 597 | #394 |
| 1962 | 614 | #380 |
| 1963 | 541 | #415 |
| 1964 | 561 | #412 |
| 1965 | 511 | #411 |
| 1966 | 429 | #456 |
| 1967 | 411 | #467 |
| 1968 | 356 | #513 |
| 1969 | 320 | #553 |
| 1970 | 347 | #543 |
| 1971 | 299 | #584 |
| 1972 | 285 | #577 |
| 1973 | 234 | #644 |
| 1974 | 250 | #624 |
| 1975 | 251 | #628 |
| 1976 | 202 | #731 |
| 1977 | 235 | #670 |
| 1978 | 243 | #662 |
| 1979 | 216 | #751 |
| 1980 | 228 | #732 |
| 1981 | 227 | #731 |
| 1982 | 221 | #753 |
| 1983 | 208 | #769 |
| 1984 | 190 | #829 |
| 1985 | 154 | #996 |
| 1986 | 152 | #1,013 |
| 1987 | 166 | #965 |
| 1988 | 154 | #1,047 |
| 1989 | 169 | #1,018 |
| 1990 | 171 | #1,051 |
| 1991 | 152 | #1,161 |
| 1992 | 169 | #1,075 |
| 1993 | 167 | #1,088 |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,303 |
| 1995 | 125 | #1,328 |
| 1996 | 149 | #1,208 |
| 1997 | 190 | #1,017 |
| 1998 | 233 | #909 |
| 1999 | 312 | #725 |
| 2000 | 376 | #656 |
| 2001 | 422 | #598 |
| 2002 | 556 | #499 |
| 2003 | 797 | #380 |
| 2004 | 1,123 | #291 |
| 2005 | 1,308 | #250 |
| 2006 | 1,413 | #242 |
| 2007 | 1,463 | #243 |
| 2008 | 1,824 | #184 |
| 2009 | 2,560 | #126 |
| 2010 | 3,440 | #85 |
| 2011 | 3,698 | #74 |
| 2012 | 4,006 | #62 |
| 2013 | 3,916 | #70 |
| 2014 | 4,202 | #66 |
| 2015 | 4,798 | #51 |
| 2016 | 4,933 | #45 |
| 2017 | 5,069 | #42 |
| 2018 | 5,163 | #38 |
| 2019 | 4,994 | #40 |
| 2020 | 4,667 | #42 |
| 2021 | 4,818 | #41 |
| 2022 | 4,845 | #40 |
| 2023 | 4,366 | #46 |
| 2024 | 4,264 | #49 |
