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Eston vs Estrella

American parents have registered 16,799 Estrellas since 1880, against 2,006 Estons. Estrella is still ahead, with 477 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eston against Estrella, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eston Estrella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 126 years in which either name was published, Estrella for 68 years and Eston for 58 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Eston Estrella
Total US births 2,00616,799
Most in one year 401,105
Babies in 2025 12477
Estimated living today 1,00016,000
Median age today 2717
Peak year 19152005
Best rank 996th boys296th girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd612th
First recorded 18861914
Girls / boys 0 / 2,00616,799 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Estons alive today are over 27; half the Estrellas are over 17. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eston Estrella
England and Wales 623

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eston and Estrella.