Estelle’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Estelle
Estelle's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Estelle's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Estelle: meaning and origin
Estelle comes from an Old French name meaning “star”, ultimately from the Latin stella, says Behind the Name. It was rare in the Middle Ages but revived in the 19th century, perhaps thanks to Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Wikipedia traces it to the Occitan word estela, “star”.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name gives Essie as the English diminutive, with Estella and Stella as variants. In Spanish the name becomes Estela or Estrella.
Famous people named Estelle
Estelle Getty was born Estelle Scher in New York City on July 25, 1923, and grew up on the Lower East Side, where she was known as Etty. Wikipedia says she was best known as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985 to 1992), a role that won her a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy. Her films included Mask (1985), Mannequin (1987) and Stuart Little (1999).
Is Estelle a popular name?
Estelle was popular in the early 1900s. US Social Security data has it at 121st in the 1900s and 125th in the 1910s, when more than 13,800 American girls were named Estelle. Behind the Name says it ranked 573rd in the US and 51st in Quebec in 2025.
Estelle trivia
Saint Estelle has a literary following. Wikipedia says she is the patron saint of the Félibrige, the literary association founded by the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral and other writers to defend and promote their language. Older forms of her name, such as Eustella and Eustalia, became Estelle through Mistral, who linked it to the Occitan word for “star”.
Gift ideas that suit an Estelle
- For a stargazer. A sky journal for a name that means “star”.
- For a Golden Girls fan. A notebook full of Sophia-worthy stories.
- For a trip to Provence. A travel journal for the south of France.
- For a Dickens reader at Christmas. Reading notes for Great Expectations.
How Estelle can use it
Any Estelle, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Estelle can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Estelle’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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