Stella (given name)
Stella is a female first name.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
- Latin: Stella: star, star, sun, wandering star
Name-day
The name day is July 21.
Well-known bearers of the name / names winners
First name
- Stella Adler (1901-1992), American actress and acting teacher
- Stella Benson (1892-1933), English writer
- Stella Bettermann (* 1963), German journalist and author
- Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994), German Jewish collaborator
- Stella Hot ( * 1993), German curler
- Stella from Hohenfels- Berger (1857-1920), Austrian actress
- Stella Klein- Löw (1904-1986), an Austrian teacher and politician
- Stella Maessen ( born 1953 ), Dutch singer
- Stella McCartney (born 1971 ), British designer and daughter of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney with Linda McCartney †
- Stella Müller- Madej (1930-2013), Jewish eyewitness of the Shoah
- Stella Zázvorková (1922-2005), Czech actress
Fictional people
- Stella is one of the characters in Winx Club
- Stella, heroine of a play by Goethe
- Stella Kowalski, character in Tennessee Williams drama A Streetcar Named Desire
- Stella Bonasera is one of the roles in CSI: NY
- Stella Termoggen is the heroine of the novel by Utta Danella
Variants
- Estelle (French)
- Estrella ( Spanish)
- Estela ( Portuguese)
- Stela (Eastern Europe, mainly Albania, Bulgaria)
- Stellan ( male form )
- Stellian ( male form, mainly Romania)