Estel
Estel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 644th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192187 births
- Best rank
- #644in 1905
- Since 1893
- 2,841people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,374 boys have been named Estel in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 87 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 87 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Estel is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (467), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Estel was the 695th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Estel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Milburnpeak 1918
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Haskellpeak 1919
- Odispeak 1921
- Leviepeak 1919
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Clemonpeak 1919
- Murlpeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.