Given name & surname
Stelle
“star of the sea”
Stelle is a variant of Stella. One English interpretation is “star of the sea.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Stelle is a variant of Stella. One English interpretation is “star of the sea.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Stelle is a variant of Stella. An origin associated with Stella is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From German Stelle, from German stellen, from Middle High German stellen, from Old High German stellen, from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan, from Proto-Indo-European *stel-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stelle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 0 boys · 49 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 590 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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