Starlene
Starlene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195051 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1937
- 1,283people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,283 girls have been named Starlene in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 51 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 51 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1950s alone account for 24%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Starlene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 23 | |
| 1940s | 137 | |
| 1950s | 307 | |
| 1960s | 300 | |
| 1970s | 148 | |
| 1980s | 163 | |
| 1990s | 85 | |
| 2000s | 87 | |
| 2010s | 28 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1950, its biggest year
Starlene was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1950 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Starlene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maribethpeak 1957
- Tonipeak 1960
- Carenpeak 1957
- Sherilynpeak 1946
- Lizabethpeak 1958
- Lesleepeak 1957
- Celindapeak 1954
- Martapeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.