Stellaluna

#11,805 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly star + moon

Stellaluna has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #11,805 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Stellaluna, 2025

1 in 414,000

Stellaluna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Stellaluna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly star + moon

coinages

What Stellaluna means

Stellaluna may mean “star + moon”, associated with Stella and Luna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Stella (“star”) + Luna (“moon”), or possibly more directly from Italian.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Stellaluna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Stellaluna is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Stellaluna is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Stellaluna between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2023; its best national rank was #9,525 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,210 in 2020 to #11,805 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,777 in 2015 to #11,805 in 2025.

How common is Stellaluna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,805; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Stellaluna 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stellaluna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Stellalunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stellaluna was born before 2020 — so the typical Stellaluna is around 5 today.

Median birth year: 2020; About 5 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Stellaluna 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: +5,405; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +6,972; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.60×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 72.7%; Peak was 2023 (11)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,525; 2023

Where Stellaluna is used

Across 1910–2025, Stellaluna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Stellaluna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stellaluna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 5,405
Best rank ever: #9,525; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 11 that year
First recorded: 2015
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Stellaluna

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

Sibling names for Stellaluna

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

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For a brother

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