About the name Estela
Estela belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Estela first appears in Social Security records in 1903. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #745 in 1932, and in 2024 115 babies received the name — 9,018 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.