Starr
Starr is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 70 births. Its best rank was 651st, in 1948.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 700.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1997302 births
- Best rank
- #651in 1948
- Since 1914
- 10,100people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,776 girls have been named Starr in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 302 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 16%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 324 boys have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Starr | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 19 | |
| 1920s | 35 | |
| 1930s | 122 | |
| 1940s | 662 | |
| 1950s | 1,061 | |
| 1960s | 855 | |
| 1970s | 1,163 | |
| 1980s | 1,386 | |
| 1990s | 1,587 | |
| 2000s | 1,569 | |
| 2010s | 877 | |
| 2020s | 440 |
In 1997, its biggest year
Starr was the 714th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1997 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Hannah. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Starr
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gracielapeak 1998
- Elissapeak 1979
- Lynneapeak 2011
- Michalpeak 1985
- Starpeak 1997
- Dariapeak 1998
- Nydiapeak 1992
- Brigidpeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
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.