girls:
186 births since 1900
#5530 (3rd percentile)
boys:
58 births since 2008
#4528 (1st percentile)
overall:
244 births since 1900
#7495 (3rd percentile)
The name Stellar is the #7,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 244 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,530 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,528 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 2008.
Stellar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Stellar is available in 32 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (30 years for girls and 9 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 Stellar has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Stellar were girls.
For girls, Stellar reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #353) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Stellar ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 18.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Stellar reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #911) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stellar".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Stellar is pronounced as STEH-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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