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

Popularity: The name Estrella ranked 659th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistics and 1729th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

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.