Estelle
Latin at root, with a bright meaning: "star". It stays rare in Poland, so most people here have never met an Estelle, and the last few years brought no newborns at all.
Estelle Pronunciation
Estelle is pronounced es-TEL-le (/ɛsˈtɛllɛ/).
What Estelle means
Where Estelle comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Estelle comes from the Latin `stella`, star. French speakers took the word and made it a name, and the variants Estella and Estela keep the same root in view.
There was a Sainte Estelle, honored on 11 May, remembered as a young martyr near Saintes in Gaul. The Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral chose her as patron of his Félibrige movement in 1854 and fixed her name in the Latinized form Estelle. Through him it reached far past the Charente.
The meaning held: star. In 2012 the Swedish crown named a princess Estelle, now second in line to the throne. On a Polish class register the name would sit beside its variants Estella and Estela, all pointing back to `stella`.
How many people are named Estelle
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Estelle. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3474 among female names.
Estelle's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Estelle as a middle name
Estelle is a first name for 99 women in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 976th, between Dobromira (49) and Ita (49).
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#974 Brenda49
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#975 Dobromira49
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#976 Estelle49
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#977 Ita49
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#978 Janine49