as a First Name
From Latin stella ‘star’. This was not used as a given name before the 16th century, when Sir Philip Sidney seems to have been the first to use it (as a name deliberately far removed from the prosaic range of everyday names) in the sonnets addressed by Astrophel to his lady, Stella. Stella Maris ‘star of the sea’ was, however, established long before that as a byname of the Virgin Mary, and may have had some influence on the choice of the word as a name.
| 616th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 63,974
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 107,163
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Stella per capita
- 1915
- marked the height of its popularity
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