Estella has been my favourite name pretty much all my life. At least as long as I can remember. I'd love to get to use it one day.
I also really like
Estelle and
Stella, but
Esther sounds kind of slurred to me for some reason so I don't care for it as much.
The only problem I have with
Estelle is that around here a lot of people accent the T too strongly and so they end up saying it ess-TEL and I don't like that because I've always blended the S and T together when I say it so it's more es-STEL.
I would use
Estella in a heartbeat and it's my favourite.
I would rank
Stella decond because of the classic feel and all the litereary associations.
Then
Estelle.
Esther last.
Do you like
Stelara?
I always think of it with these.
If I had my way, I'd name a daughter
Estella Juliet or
Estella Vivienne /
Viviana.