Estelle

A female given name: from a Latin word meaning “star.”.

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Estelle is a female given name whose immediate origin is French, and for which the generally accepted meaning is star.
Saint Estelle was a martyr who purportedly lived in Aquitania in the third century AD although the earliest references to her date from the Middle Ages; the earliest formats of this Saint's name: Eustella/Eustelle and Eustalia, obviously morphed into Estelle due to association with estela: Occitan for star, of which Estelle is essentially a phonetic rendering, and star is the meaning generally assigned the name Estelle, although the format Eustalia suggests the name's true root is the Greek eustales: well-groomed. Despite the reported popularity of the saint the name Estelle was afforded little evident usage prior to the publication in 1788 of the pastoral Estelle by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian: the first famous historical namesake: Estelle Fornier (née Dubœuf), muse of the composer Berlioz, was born in 1797. Best-known overall in France due to model Estelle Lefébure (born 1966), the name Estelle has proven substantially more popular in Belgium than France.
Estelle came into vogue in the British Isles in the mid-19th century likely as a variant of the similar Stella which had recently become fashionable: Estelle was also in effect promoted via utilization by a number of novelists who wrote in English, most notably by Charles Dickens in variant form for the character Estella Havisham in his novel Great Expectations published in August 1961 after being serialized weekly from December 1860 with Estella being introduced in Chapter 8 on 19 January 1861. The general scholarly consensus is that in choosing Estella as the name of the remote love object of his novel's focal character: Pip - whose full given name is Philip - , Dickens was evoking Sir Philip Sidney's poetic wooing of the unattainable Stella in Astrophel and Stella (1591). Several other widely read authors of the day gave the name Estelle to major characters in their novels, Catherine Gore in Romances of Real Life as early as 1829 although most examples date from mid-century, such as Annie Edwards in Creeds (1859), E.D.E.N. Southworth in The Lady of the Isle (1859), and Augusta Jane Evans in St. Elmo (1866).
Estelle and Estella remained popular from roughly 1880 to 1930, with a marked decline in usage since 1960. Estelle has overall been more popular in the United States than in the British Isles, with there being at least two prominent American namesakes: writer Estelle Anna Lewis (1824–1880) and society woman Estelle Skidmore Doremus (1830–1905), who significantly predate the name's mid-19th century British vogue.
Estelle is also used as an alternative form of Esther.
The name Estelle made headlines in February 2012 when King Carl Gustaf of Sweden announced Estelle as the given name chosen for his newborn granddaughter - see Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland - , news which the Daily Mail reported under the banner "She's already a star!" referencing the standard interpretation of Estelle as star. The choice of a French name with only a peripheral profile in Sweden - a 2012 year-end tally would estimate that a total of 663 Swedish residents bore the given name Estelle - touched off a flurry of media debate with writer Herman Lindqvist, who has acted as a historical consultant to the Swedish Royal Family, expressing the extreme negative position thus: "Totally unexpected and inappropriate...No name for a future ruler...Estelle sounds like the name of a nightclub queen". Conversely top Scandinavian royalty pundit Kjell Arne Totland (no) reacted positively, calling Estelle "a very nice name, rich in tradition yet modern".

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Derived from Latin stella, means: star.

Stella, Stelios, Esther

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Estelle Getty	1923	Actress
2	Estelle	1980	English R&B recording artist
3	Estelle Parsons	1927	American actress
4	Estelle Harris	1928	American actress
5	Estelle Reiner	1914	Actress, singer
6	Estelle Evans	1906	American actress
7	Julie Estelle	1989	Indonesian actress
8	Estelle Bennett	1941	American musician
9	Don Estelle	1933	British actor
10	Estelle Winwood	1883	English stage and film actress
11	Estelle Balet	1994	Swiss Freeride snowboarder
12	Estelle Cruijff	1978	Dutch actor and television presenter
13	Estelle Taylor	1894	American actress, singer, and animal rights activist
14	Estelle Lefébure	1966	French actress and model
15	Estelle Skornik	1971	French actress
16	Estelle Asmodelle	1964	Australian model, activist, scientist
17	Estelle Linden	1994	Indonesian actress
18	Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley	1952	British teacher, politician, life peer
19	Estelle Desanges	1977	French pornographic actress
20	Estelle Bernadotte	1904	Wife of Count Folke Bernadotte
21	Estelle Chen
22	Estelle Axton	1918	American music industry professional and co-founder of Stax Records
23	Estelle Griswold	1900	American civil rights activist and feminist
24	Estelle Mosselly	1992	French boxer
25	Estelle Hemsley	1887	American actress
26	Estelle Denis	1976	French journalist and presenter
27	Estelle Blackburn	1950	Investigative journalist
28	Estelle Lazer		Australian archaeologist
29	Estelle Brody	1900	American actress
30	Estelle Roberts	1889	British medium
31	Estelle Martin		French journalist
32	Estelle Liebling	1880	American vocal coach
33	Estelle Larrivaz		French actress
34	Saint Estelle
35	Estelle Nze Minko	1991	French handball player
36	Estelle Vincent	1977	French actress
37	Estelle Satabin	1949
38	Estelle Ramey	1917	American scientist and educaor
39	Estelle Freedman	1947	American historian
40	Estelle Yancey	1896	American blues singer
41	Estelle Sartini	1973	Rugby union player
42	Estelle Richman		American politician
43	Estelle Alphand	1995	French alpine skier
44	Estelle Kohler	1940	British actress
45	Estelle Etterre	1899
46	Estelle Harman	1922	American acting coach
47	Estelle Faye	1978
48	Estelle Peck Ishigo	1899	American artist
49	Estelle Milbourne
50	Mark Estelle	1981	American football player
51	Estelle Vuillemin	1984	French bicycle racer
52	Estelle Galarme		French actress
53	Estelle Vereeck
54	Linda Estelle	1974
55	Estelle Anna Lewis	1824	American writer
56	Estelle Skidmore Doremus	1830	American philanthropist
57	Estelle Caron	1926
58	Estelle Beauchamp
59	Dick Estelle	1942	Major League Baseball pitcher
60	Estelle Lawton Lindsey	1868	American journalist
61	Estelle Elizabeth	1996	French ice dancer
62	Estelle Lawson	1907	Amateur golfer
63	Estelle Mauffette	1904	Canadian actress
64	Estelle May Hurll	1863	American writer
65	Estelle Vogein	1976	French handball player
66	Jean-Baptiste Estelle	1662	French diplomat
67	Estelle Perrossier	1990	French athletics competitor
68	Estelle Akofio-Sowah		Businessman
69	Estelle Grelier	1973	French politician
70	Estelle Ricketts
71	Estelle Cascarino	1997
72	Estelle Weigel	1914	Figure skater
73	Estelle Valls de Gomis		French writer and illustrator
74	Estelle Muriel Kerr	1879
75	Estelle Sapir		Holocaust survivor and cause celebre lawsuit plaintiff
76	Estelle Patou	1977	French triathlete
77	Estelle Girda Beere	1875	Dancing teacher
78	Estelle Irizarry		Costa Rican writer
79	Estelle Chisholm Ward	1875
80	Estelle Oudot	1962
81	Estelle Nathan		British painter
82	Estelle Thomson	1894
83	Estelle Leroi	1977	French triathlete
84	Estelle Lacoursière		Canadian botanist and school teacher
85	Estelle Johnson
86	Estelle Thompson	1930	Australian crime writer
87	Estelle Brou	1977	Ivorian athletics competitor
88	Estelle Millot	1993	Waterpolo player
89	Estelle Louise Jensen	1888
90	Estelle Fialon	1969
91	Estelle Talavera Baudet	1979	Spanish poet
92	Estelle Quérard	1979	French volleyball player
93	Estelle Looi
94	Axel Estelle	1865
95	Britta Estelle	1909	Swedish actress
96	Estelle Nollet	1977	French writer
97	Estelle Klein	1930	Canadian folk music advocate
98	Estelle Courivaud	1985
99	Estelle Lechat	1984
100	Estelle Clark