Stella

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Stella is ranked 49th among girls in 2024 (4,264 births). Its best rank was 38th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #49down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,2640.26% of girls
Peak year: 20185,163 births
Best rank: #38in 2018
Since 1880: 202,743people given the name

Babies named Stella, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

202,743 girls have been named Stella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 5,163 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 2010s alone account for 22%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Stella
1880s	6,130
1890s	9,807
1900s	11,014
1910s	28,526
1920s	25,899
1930s	11,206
1940s	11,363
1950s	8,590
1960s	4,957
1970s	2,562
1980s	1,869
1990s	1,799
2000s	11,842
2010s	44,219
2020s	22,960

In 2018, its biggest year

Stella was the 38th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Stella

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.