Baby name
RISING
🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇦🇹 Stella
/STEL · ah/
Meaning
“Star”
Latin stella means 'star'; popularized by Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella; evokes luminosity and constancy in Renaissance tradition.
Vibe
romanticelegant
How it ages.
Stella faded 1950-1990 as dated boomer-generation name but has resurged sharply 2010-2025 as vintage-style retro choice.
The cultural moment.
Consistently popular across the English-speaking world and Scandinavia: it sits just outside the top 50 in the United States, inside the top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, and among the top 20 in Sweden.