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Stella

Pronounced /ˈstɛlə/

Rank in 2024
#49
Born in 2024
4,264
Peak year
2018 · #38
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 4,264 girls were named Stella, about 1 in every 378.
  • It peaked in 2018 with 5,163 babies, ranked #38.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 202,743 girls have been named Stella since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Stella per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.0
    Greatest
  2. 1.0
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.8
    Gen Z
  7. 2.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 60,769 babies, 2.97 per 1,000. Silent: 21,002 babies, 1.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 16,580 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,817 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,705 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 23,721 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 56,035 babies, 2.76 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin stēlla (“star”). Noun sense 2 is after the protagonist of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).

  • A female given name from Latin.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/ˈstɛlə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Stella, CC BY-SA 4.0.