Stella

Latin, "star"

Fashion designer Stella McCartney, daughter of former Beatle Paul, was married in Scotland on August 30, 2003. Stella misses making the list of girls’ names always in the Top 1000 by only a single year, 1986. That helps explain Stella’s current popularity, as each generation of parents needs to reinvent baby names, often choosing names for their children that were out of fashion when they were born. Long associated with theater anti-hero Stanley Kowalski’s anguished cry in A Streetcar Named Desire — Stelllllaaaaa! — Stella is especially popular in Scandinavia.