81%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage English Pronounced Pron. ehs-TEHL-ə [key·IPA] Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Latinate form of Estelle. This was the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations (1860). Related NamesFamily Tree·Details DiminutiveEssieOther Languages & CulturesStela(Bulgarian) Estel(Catalan) Stela(Croatian) Stela(Czech) Stella(Dutch) Estelle(French) Stella(German) Stella(Italian) Estela(Portuguese) Stela(Romanian) Stela(Slovak) Estela, Estrella(Spanish) User SubmissionEstel·la PopularityDetails Last ranked #493 in 1918 France Last ranked #498 in 2022 United States People think this name isRate·Details classic formal upper class natural wholesome refined strange complex serious nerdy Categories celestial, Charles Dickens characters, Dantalian no Shoka characters, Disney characters, ends in -ella, Latinizations, literature, Sims 3 characters, space, stars, Suikoden characters, Tolkien characters, Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song characters