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Baby name
Stella
Girl
Origin of the name
Stella comes from the Latin stella, “star.”
Comeback name
206,906births since 1880
2010sgeneration
No. 38rank at its peak, in 2018
Where babies named Stella are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Stella is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Stella is most common in New Mexico (1.8 times), Kentucky (1.6) and Pennsylvania (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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