Estelle
Estelle is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Star.
What Estelle means
Star.
Estelle sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Estelle comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Estelle is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Estelle?
In the girl name rankings we track, Estelle falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Estelle
We group Estelle under Star and the stars and sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Estelle
These share Estelle's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Nova — New; a blazing star.
- Stella — Star. Shining and celestial.
- Stellaluna — Star and moon.
- Vesper — The evening star.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Bituin — Star.
- Csilla — Morning star.
- Danica — Morning star.
- Dara — Star; maiden.
- Haruse — Star.
- Hesper — The evening star.
More Latin names
- Emily — Industrious and striving.
- Fabian — Bean grower.
- Dominic — Belonging to the Lord.
- Fausto — Fortunate; lucky.
- Domenica — Of the Lord; born on Sunday.
- Felicity — Intense happiness; good fortune.
- Diana — Divine; goddess of the moon and hunt.
- Felix — Happy, fortunate, lucky.
- Dexter — Skilful; right-handed.
- Fidelis — Faithful.