Stella Name Meaning, Origins & Popularity

Stella Forename

711^th

Most Common

name in the World

Approximately 1,173,050 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:

Nigeria

Highest density in:

Cyprus

Stella Forename Definition:

Stella Forename Distribution

Place	Gender	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Nigeria	100%	226,353	1:784	120
Uganda	100%	148,785	1:275	49
Argentina	100%	112,422	1:380	93
United States	100%	90,515	1:4,005	628
Tanzania	100%	83,852	1:630	132
Malawi	100%	54,530	1:314	53
Kenya	100%	51,561	1:898	182
Ghana	100%	51,298	1:526	125
England	100%	27,397	1:2,030	338
Zimbabwe	100%	24,064	1:641	102
Italy	100%	20,715	1:2,948	342
Brazil	100%	19,623	1:10,918	1,191
Colombia	100%	17,734	1:2,694	353
Mozambique	-	14,400	1:1,892	414
Zambia	-	13,484	1:1,176	260
South Africa	100%	13,145	1:4,149	786
Greece	100%	11,868	1:921	127
Canada	100%	11,500	1:2,881	545
Russia	100%	10,978	1:13,138	423
India	100%	10,895	1:111,508	13,206
Cameroon	100%	10,861	1:1,990	395
Sudan	100%	9,519	1:3,972	645
Rwanda	100%	9,427	1:1,206	257
Madagascar	100%	8,464	1:2,792	643
Philippines	99%	7,240	1:14,642	1,727
Papua New Guinea	99%	6,602	1:1,235	139
Indonesia	90%	6,374	1:40,471	5,256
Cyprus	100%	5,331	1:163	30
Uruguay	100%	5,013	1:684	143
Congo	100%	4,627	1:1,083	167
France	100%	4,549	1:14,612	784
DR Congo	94%	3,670	1:20,117	1,658
Netherlands	100%	3,567	1:4,738	740
Germany	100%	3,343	1:28,919	1,103
Malaysia	99%	3,208	1:9,492	1,087
Angola	100%	3,104	1:8,688	1,063
Ukraine	100%	2,940	1:15,476	304
Paraguay	100%	2,448	1:2,956	552
Uzbekistan	100%	2,445	1:12,592	1,445
China	-	2,344	1:582,788	27,891
Poland	98%	2,309	1:16,469	627
Australia	-	2,210	1:6,180	742
Israel	100%	2,183	1:3,849	697
Gabon	100%	2,165	1:870	178
Togo	-	2,143	1:3,378	565
Armenia	100%	2,141	1:1,363	275
Chad	100%	1,977	1:6,878	1,065
Spain	100%	1,925	1:24,171	1,331
Czechia	100%	1,583	1:6,732	377
Denmark	-	1,511	1:3,739	501
Ireland	100%	1,470	1:3,159	389
Scotland	100%	1,352	1:3,957	428
Sri Lanka	-	1,288	1:16,148	2,229
Wales	100%	1,096	1:2,823	438
Egypt	88%	1,084	1:84,779	4,065
Bangladesh	100%	1,008	1:158,196	9,003
Sweden	100%	911	1:10,821	931
Venezuela	100%	910	1:33,189	2,294
Hong Kong	-	906	1:8,557	786
New Zealand	-	867	1:5,232	721
Belgium	100%	781	1:14,712	1,320
Portugal	-	701	1:14,851	796
Saudi Arabia	-	699	1:44,081	5,366
Moldova	100%	690	1:5,161	356
Singapore	100%	663	1:9,483	1,889
Solomon Islands	100%	643	1:904	175
Northern Ireland	100%	630	1:2,926	411
Switzerland	100%	596	1:13,781	1,182
Thailand	100%	576	1:121,642	9,558
Kazakhstan	97%	566	1:31,355	1,597
Botswana	100%	528	1:4,137	713
Hungary	100%	482	1:20,315	405
Estonia	100%	445	1:2,956	546
Chile	99%	433	1:40,663	1,601
Mexico	100%	425	1:292,105	4,309
Belarus	99%	424	1:22,364	366
Croatia	100%	410	1:10,286	794
Morocco	-	409	1:83,982	2,937
Fiji	-	403	1:2,214	616
Finland	100%	375	1:14,622	953
Dominican Republic	-	364	1:28,657	2,353
Trinidad and Tobago	100%	364	1:3,740	701
Slovenia	100%	363	1:6,773	746
Mali	100%	331	1:51,292	2,831
Ecuador	-	294	1:60,296	1,932
Guyana	100%	274	1:2,786	545
Benin	100%	273	1:38,739	3,304
Qatar	100%	261	1:9,079	1,458
Austria	100%	250	1:34,057	1,223
Iceland	100%	247	1:1,482	281
Panama	100%	246	1:15,880	1,745
Namibia	-	243	1:9,894	1,212
Azerbaijan	100%	241	1:40,012	2,732
South Korea	100%	240	1:23,102	2,096
Senegal	100%	237	1:61,525	2,238
Guatemala	100%	229	1:70,342	1,916
New Caledonia	100%	221	1:1,222	273
Peru	100%	221	1:143,853	4,376
Iraq	100%	217	1:161,373	3,097
French Polynesia	-	211	1:1,317	301
Haiti	100%	204	1:52,583	3,462
Latvia	99%	196	1:10,284	671
Turkmenistan	100%	194	1:28,211	604
Albania	99%	191	1:15,951	2,195
Seychelles	100%	187	1:496	99
Swaziland	-	179	1:7,264	1,100
Curaçao	100%	178	1:875	264
Iran	100%	174	1:451,131	5,729
Liberia	98%	172	1:25,652	1,653
Jamaica	-	159	1:18,134	1,580
Vanuatu	-	159	1:1,646	442
Norway	100%	155	1:33,112	1,613
Burkina Faso	100%	152	1:120,918	6,227
Slovakia	100%	152	1:34,935	653
Puerto Rico	-	151	1:23,512	979
Japan	-	143	1:895,007	14,344
Pakistan	100%	143	1:1,359,145	21,545
Vietnam	95%	140	1:661,594	2,241
Mauritius	-	137	1:9,473	1,238
Bulgaria	100%	133	1:52,559	2,551
Kyrgyzstan	100%	133	1:44,912	4,229
Georgia	98%	126	1:29,670	1,783
Aruba	-	125	1:830	155
Barbados	-	120	1:2,415	508
Malta	-	108	1:3,976	592
Bahamas	-	92	1:4,341	756
Transnistria	100%	76	1:6,258	263
Bahrain	-	74	1:18,225	2,605
Kuwait	-	66	1:57,352	4,703
El Salvador	-	65	1:97,566	2,072
Lebanon	100%	64	1:87,931	3,051
Ivory Coast	100%	62	1:372,192	15,266
Turkey	100%	57	1:1,364,942	11,710
Jersey	-	54	1:1,851	357
Taiwan	100%	50	1:475,394	27,449
Central African Republic	-	49	1:92,151	221
Myanmar	-	49	1:1,060,169	627
Suriname	100%	49	1:11,282	2,027
Costa Rica	100%	46	1:103,651	3,266
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	100%	42	1:2,657	514
Jordan	100%	41	1:215,287	2,749
American Samoa	-	40	1:1,396	189
Belize	100%	40	1:8,858	1,415
Saint Lucia	100%	40	1:4,445	759
Macau	-	36	1:16,895	334
Honduras	100%	30	1:293,916	5,685
Nicaragua	100%	30	1:200,611	5,115
Guam	-	28	1:5,737	966
United States Virgin Islands	-	26	1:4,221	726
Burundi	100%	25	1:396,262	737
Sierra Leone	-	25	1:283,547	466
Grenada	100%	24	1:4,505	764
Bermuda	-	21	1:3,087	575
Guernsey	-	21	1:3,016	423
Palestine	100%	19	1:239,477	2,496
Greenland	-	17	1:3,316	507
Marshall Islands	100%	17	1:3,014	445
Serbia	-	17	1:420,337	4,618
Tunisia	-	17	1:39,818	2,239
Afghanistan	100%	16	1:2,038,970	18,017
Libya	-	16	1:388,832	1,019
Antigua and Barbuda	-	15	1:6,626	1,171
Monaco	100%	15	1:2,564	491
United Arab Emirates	-	15	1:476,800	16,943
Lithuania	-	14	1:210,849	1,923
Luxembourg	100%	13	1:43,388	1,811
Romania	-	13	1:1,542,460	22,573
Oman	-	12	1:342,389	4,330
Cuba	-	11	1:1,046,050	3,771
Lesotho	100%	11	1:185,454	13,249
Abkhazia	100%	10	1:24,342	1,204
Bolivia	-	10	1:1,060,140	3,387
Ethiopia	100%	9	1:10,840,015	14,737
Northern Mariana Islands	-	9	1:6,074	908
São Tomé and Príncipe	100%	9	1:21,333	1,816
Anguilla	100%	7	1:1,894	342
Saint Kitts and Nevis	-	7	1:7,837	1,103
Brunei	-	5	1:83,914	1,339
Cayman Islands	-	5	1:12,260	1,512
Dominica	-	5	1:15,094	483
Nauru	100%	5	1:2,385	265
Akrotiri and Dhekelia	100%	4	1:1,949	87
Eritrea	100%	4	1:1,188,244	607
Faroe Islands	100%	4	1:12,282	1,318
Micronesia	-	4	1:26,625	714
Samoa	-	4	1:48,798	712
Tajikistan	100%	4	1:2,093,730	5,016
Cambodia	50%	3	1:5,424,443	41,412
Cook Islands	-	3	1:6,051	772
Andorra	-	2	1:41,444	944
North Macedonia	-	2	1:1,045,378	12,250
Niger	-	2	1:9,591,997	55,581
Syria	-	2	1:9,653,038	7,712
Algeria	-	1	1:38,176,720	32,669
Bosnia and Herzegovina	100%	1	1:3,524,458	8,651
Comoros	-	1	1:761,339	901
Equatorial Guinea	-	1	1:1,137,689	1,044
Falkland Islands	-	1	1:3,142	392
Gambia	-	1	1:1,926,596	1,391
Guinea-Bissau	-	1	1:1,728,218	422
Isle of Man	100%	1	1:85,023	723
Maldives	-	1	1:433,903	5,827
Mauritania	-	1	1:4,095,239	27,701
Mongolia	-	1	1:2,934,814	16,205
Montenegro	100%	1	1:634,576	4,914
Nepal	-	1	1:28,487,352	119,417
Northern Cyprus	100%	1	1:318,133	3,044
Palau	-	1	1:21,711	239
Saint Martin	-	1	1:35,746	277
San Marino	100%	1	1:32,920	787
South Sudan	100%	1	1:11,551,019	3,224
Tuvalu	-	1	1:11,131	89
Wallis and Futuna	-	1	1:13,529	157

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The alternate forms: Stélla (4) & Stëlla (1) are calculated separately.

Stella (51,111) may also be a surname.

Stella Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? ^{meaning and history}

A female name. Latin Stella ‘star’. The name was used by Sir Philip Sidney to address Penelope Rich in the sonnet sequence Astrophel to Stella. Later Waller also used it, and Swift bestowed it as a pet-name on Esther Johnson. The modern use of the name is doubtless due to these literary associations, particularly those with Swift. An early example is the use of Stella and Vanessa for two of the dd. of Leslie Stephen (1832-1904). One medieval example of the name has been noted in a Yorks Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 return of 1379.

— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

From Latin stella, ‘a star,’ and therefore a doublet of Esther. In English literature there are three famous Stellas: the Stella, i. e. Penelope Devereux, in Sidney’s sonnets, punningly titled Astrophel and Stella, 1591; she of Waller’s poems, Lady Dorothy Sidney; Swift’s friend, Esther Johnson. (Harvey.)

— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge

A female name signifying a star (L).

— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Latin (feminine) - A star.

— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody

A Latin name, meaning: A star.

— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead

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Stella Forename Popularity

Stella Demographics

Stella Political Affiliation
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Sample size: 17,375 (2014)

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Phonetically Similar Names

Forename	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Stélla	94	4	/
Stëlla	94	1	/
Stellah	92	49,267	/
Stellia	92	4,855	/
Sttella	92	350	/
Stellas	92	297	/
Stellla	92	108	/
Stellaa	92	49	/
Stellya	92	48	/
Sstella	92	39	/
Steella	92	34	/
Sztella	92	15	/
Staella	92	14	/
Stellat	92	12	/
Stellea	92	7	/
Shtella	92	7	/
Stellay	92	5	/
Stellaz	92	3	/
Jstella	92	3	/
Stellha	92	2	/
Stellai	92	2	/
Stelloa	92	2	/
Stelhla	92	1	/
Stellad	92	1	/
Stellaj	92	1	/
Stellap	92	1	/
Steslla	92	1	/
Stoella	92	1	/
Stiella	92	1	/
Xstella	92	1	/
Stlla	91	50	/
Sttellaa	86	74	/
Sttellas	86	63	/
Stelllah	86	2	/
Sttellah	86	1	/
Stellaah	86	1	/
Stellaai	86	1	/
Stellaat	86	1	/
Stellahh	86	1	/
Stellaia	86	1	/
Stellais	86	1	/
Stellajj	86	1	/
Stellass	86	1	/
Stellaya	86	1	/
Stellias	86	1	/
Sstellah	86	1	/
Stellaau	86	1	/
Stilla	83	2,326	/
Stelle	83	996	/
Stelly	83	915	/
Stello	83	103	/
Stelli	83	60	/
Stylla	83	4	/
Stllah	83	3	/
Stllea	83	1	/
Xtella	83	1	/
Ztella	83	1	/
Stla	80	11	/
Steller	77	655	/
Stellio	77	646	/
Staelle	77	276	/
Stellie	77	70	/
Stelley	77	13	/
Stellis	77	12	/
Stellos	77	12	/
Stellee	77	5	/
Stelleh	77	5	/
Stillah	77	3	/
Shtelli	77	3	/
Stillia	77	3	/
Stelles	77	3	/
Sthllah	77	2	/
Stielly	77	2	/
Steelly	77	2	/
Stellys	77	2	/
S'Telle	77	2	/
Staelli	77	2	/
Sttelli	77	1	/
Stellho	77	1	/
Stelloh	77	1	/
Stelloo	77	1	/
Stellou	77	1	/
Stoelle	77	1	/
Stihlla	77	1	/
Stllaah	77	1	/
Ztellah	77	1	/
Stelliz	77	1	/
Stillea	77	1	/
Stellyt	77	1	/
Stlas	73	10	/
Stlay	73	1	/
Stlea	73	1	/
Stlia	73	1	/
Stlya	73	1	/
Shtla	73	1	/
Stellios	71	290	/
Stellest	71	2	/
Stellees	71	1	/
Stellesh	71	1	/
Stelliot	71	1	/
Stellioz	71	1	/
Steelley	71	1	/
Stillash	71	1	/
Sueidlla	71	1	/
Sttellio	71	1	/
Stiellui	71	1	/
Stilly	67	31	/
Stillo	67	21	/
Stille	67	21	/
Stilli	67	10	/
Stylle	67	7	/
Styllo	67	6	/
Stlaay	67	2	/
Stylli	67	2	/
Chtlla	67	1	/
Stålle	67	1	/
Stller	67	1	/
Stlley	67	1	/
Ztllah	67	1	/
Wsdlla	67	1	/
Stèlle	67	1	/
Staèel	67	1	/

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Stella Name Transliterations

Transliteration	ICU Latin	Percentage of Incidence
Stella in the Russian language
Стелла	stella	-

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Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Stella