How popular is “Stella” in the USA?

Number of people named “Stella” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Stella” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Stella” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Stella” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Stella” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Stella” by birth year

This chart shows how “Stella” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	414	0.002054754	414		100%
1881	416	0.002158931	416		100%
1882	506	0.002284084	506		100%
1883	529	0.002438395	529		100%
1884	584	0.002398741	584		100%
1885	654	0.002715338	649	5	98%
1886	702	0.002749534	702		100%
1887	664	0.002683999	664		100%
1888	775	0.002587871	775		100%
1889	891	0.003083621	891		100%
1890	929	0.003082272	924	5	99%
1891	872	0.003041793	867	5	99%
1892	972	0.002906925	972		100%
1893	932	0.002865726	926	6	99%
1894	1035	0.003055892	1035		100%
1895	1026	0.00292291	1026		100%
1896	1059	0.00296237	1054	5	99%
1897	971	0.002798618	966	5	99%
1898	1062	0.002784077	1062		100%
1899	975	0.002874122	975		100%
1900	1183	0.002627383	1177	6	99%
1901	934	0.002700889	928	6	99%
1902	1075	0.002779695	1075		100%
1903	1021	0.002678384	1016	5	99%
1904	1031	0.002555237	1026	5	99%
1905	1097	0.00258774	1097		100%
1906	1141	0.002663082	1141		100%
1907	1156	0.002483938	1150	6	99%
1908	1222	0.002500772	1216	6	99%
1909	1195	0.002337527	1188	7	99%
1910	1319	0.002232902	1319		100%
1911	1422	0.002207122	1422		100%
1912	1844	0.00186628	1834	10	99%
1913	2214	0.001947041	2205	9	99%
1914	2777	0.001960682	2771	6	100%
1915	3657	0.001995715	3657		100%
1916	3829	0.001979408	3818	11	99%
1917	3880	0.001933475	3872	8	100%
1918	3936	0.001812897	3928	8	100%
1919	3708	0.001757142	3700	8	100%
1920	3505	0.001549073	3492	13	99%
1921	3344	0.001432424	3335	9	99%
1922	3175	0.001386974	3166	9	99%
1923	2965	0.001287741	2956	9	99%
1924	2758	0.00115804	2752	6	100%
1925	2411	0.0010333	2402	9	99%
1926	2204	0.00095997	2191	13	99%
1927	2123	0.00091534	2112	11	99%
1928	1811	0.000800995	1803	8	99%
1929	1697	0.000774122	1690	7	99%
1930	1578	0.00070976	1570	8	99%
1931	1428	0.000678582	1419	9	99%
1932	1349	0.000638946	1340	9	99%
1933	1130	0.000565156	1123	7	99%
1934	1105	0.000532064	1095	10	98%
1935	954	0.000456481	945	9	98%
1936	974	0.000468815	967	7	99%
1937	923	0.000433197	916	7	98%
1938	886	0.000400439	877	9	98%
1939	961	0.000436136	954	7	99%
1940	962	0.000417773	962		100%
1941	1023	0.000419877	1023		100%
1942	1133	0.000414742	1126	7	99%
1943	1182	0.000418769	1182		100%
1944	1017	0.000378056	1017		100%
1945	993	0.000374306	993		100%
1946	1162	0.000363658	1162		100%
1947	1339	0.000371705	1334	5	99%
1948	1352	0.000391598	1344	8	99%
1949	1220	0.000350094	1220		100%
1950	1113	0.000317695	1113		100%
1951	1060	0.000287751	1060		100%
1952	996	0.000262243	996		100%
1953	956	0.000248077	956		100%
1954	852	0.000214032	852		100%
1955	794	0.000197754	794		100%
1956	766	0.000185785	766		100%
1957	737	0.000175387	731	6	98%
1958	683	0.000165219	683		100%
1959	644	0.000154882	639	5	98%
1960	617	0.000148538	617		100%
1961	597	0.000144123	597		100%
1962	614	0.000152154	614		100%
1963	541	0.000136678	541		100%
1964	561	0.000144305	561		100%
1965	511	0.000140948	511		100%
1966	429	0.00012343	429		100%
1967	411	0.000121064	411		100%
1968	356	0.000105375	356		100%
1969	320	0.000092078	320		100%
1970	347	0.000096215	347		100%
1971	299	0.000087112	299		100%
1972	285	0.000090678	285		100%
1973	234	0.000077563	234		100%
1974	250	0.000082237	250		100%
1975	251	0.000083129	251		100%
1976	202	0.000066572	202		100%
1977	240	0.000075555	235	5	96%
1978	243	0.000076563	243		100%
1979	216	0.000064923	216		100%
1980	228	0.000066192	228		100%
1981	227	0.000065619	227		100%
1982	221	0.000063	221		100%
1983	208	0.000060058	208		100%
1984	190	0.000054461	190		100%
1985	154	0.000043148	154		100%
1986	152	0.000042732	152		100%
1987	166	0.000046039	166		100%
1988	154	0.000041677	154		100%
1989	169	0.00004396	169		100%
1990	171	0.000043264	171		100%
1991	152	0.000039022	152		100%
1992	169	0.000043996	169		100%
1993	167	0.000044294	167		100%
1994	131	0.000035237	131		100%
1995	125	0.000034133	125		100%
1996	149	0.000040853	149		100%
1997	190	0.000052403	190		100%
1998	233	0.000063346	233		100%
1999	312	0.000084464	312		100%
2000	376	0.000099473	376		100%
2001	422	0.000112732	422		100%
2002	556	0.000148731	556		100%
2003	797	0.000209609	797		100%
2004	1123	0.000293908	1123		100%
2005	1308	0.000340196	1308		100%
2006	1413	0.000357162	1413		100%
2007	1463	0.000365962	1463		100%
2008	1824	0.000464044	1824		100%
2009	2560	0.000670126	2560		100%
2010	3447	0.000932696	3440	7	100%
2011	3704	0.001012633	3698	6	100%
2012	4013	0.001097237	4006	7	100%
2013	3916	0.001074152	3916		100%
2014	4208	0.001135341	4202	6	100%
2015	4805	0.001298329	4798	7	100%
2016	4933	0.001344619	4933		100%
2017	5069	0.001417428	5069		100%
2018	5163	0.001468473	5163		100%
2019	4994	0.001438806	4994		100%
2020	4672	0.001398561	4667	5	100%
2021	4818	0.001422099	4818		100%
2022	4845	0.001432104	4845		100%
2023	4366	0.001318557	4366		100%
2024	4264	0.001281057	4264		100%

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