Starling
Starling is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 774th, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192026 births
- Best rank
- #774in 1908
- Since 1880
- 1,204people given the name
The story in the numbers
987 boys have been named Starling in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 26 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 26 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Starling is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (217), most of them born around 2023.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Starling | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 29 | |
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 25 | |
| 1910s | 123 | |
| 1920s | 155 | |
| 1930s | 125 | |
| 1940s | 125 | |
| 1950s | 98 | |
| 1960s | 52 | |
| 1970s | 57 | |
| 1980s | 31 | |
| 1990s | 41 | |
| 2000s | 36 | |
| 2010s | 45 | |
| 2020s | 33 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Starling was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Starling
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josephuspeak 1923
- Godfreypeak 1918
- Finispeak 1922
- Thorntonpeak 1921
- Burnettpeak 1920
- Ashbypeak 2017
- Bedfordpeak 1924
- Algiepeak 1919
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.