Meaning: Its source is a Latin expression meaning "Star."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Spanish.

Compound Forms: Maristela

Alternative Spellings: Estela

Popularity: The name Estella ranked 541st in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Narrative: Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) introduced the use of this Latin word as an English name in his sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella.

Sydney also invented the name Pamela for the shepherdess-heroine of one of his pastoral poems.