Estele

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Estele has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Estele, 1922

1 in 458,000

Estele over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Estele: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Estele means

Estele is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Estele is used in Walloon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Walloon, Estele is pronounced /ɛs.ˈtɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Estele between 1916 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #4,455 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Estele?

Estele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 458,000; 5 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 240,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,338 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Estele sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Estele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esteles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Estele was born before 1918 — so the typical Estele is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Estele rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (6)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,455; 1918

Spellings of Estele

Estele is not the most common spelling — Estelle is, with 42.9% against Estele's 0.01%.

Estelle42.9%56,410
Estella32.6%42,920
Ester12.4%16,265
Estela7.0%9,147
Estell3.2%4,232
Steve0.69%907
Esmee0.65%860
Estee0.63%830

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Estele around the world

Where Estele ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1909–2014
#7,099
in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Estele by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,455; 1918
Peak year: 1918; 6 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Estele

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Milele Esthel Estera Estes Estacia Estill Nephele Estine Estelee Estevan Estoria Cecele Esteban Nayele Jizele Estilla Lucele Este Esteen Esterine Ethele Eisele Esteysi Ronaele

Sibling names for Estele

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand Regis

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