girls:
4.2k births since 1880
#2639 (54th percentile)
boys:
551 births since 1890
#4035 (12th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1880
#3944 (49th percentile)
The name Estell is the #3,944 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,783 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,639 (53.8% percentile) for all time with 4,232 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,035 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 551 births since 1890.
Estell has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1890 for boys). Birth data for Estell is available in 94 out of the 104 years between 1880 and 1983 (94 years for girls and 48 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Estell has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.5% of all recorded births being female. In 1983, 100.0% of babies named Estell were girls.
For girls, Estell reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 24.1% percentile (ranked #310) with 250 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 250 births per million (ranked 24.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
For boys, Estell reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #479) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Estell".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Estell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.0% confident that Estell is pronounced as eh-STEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-STEHL, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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