Star
Star was given to 92 girls in 2025, #2,062 among girls’ names; 8,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,930 Americans named Star and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Star by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Star mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Star is “a female given name from English.” Its etymology gives the sense “starling” (Star).
As a German and Jewish surname, from Star (“starling”).
Also as a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Stern (“star”).
As a Dutch surname, from star (“stiff, rigid”).
As a Slovene surname, from star (“old”).
As an English given name, from star, sometimes originating as a nickname.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Star?
#2,062 among girls’ names, 2025
Star rose from #2,102 in 2015 to #2,062 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 52.1 to 57.2 per million.
221 babies in 1997, the peak
Star peaked in 1997, when 221 girls were given it, #909 among girls’ names. The 101 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,062 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,911 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,074 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,047 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,664 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,606 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,640 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,936 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,790 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,102 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,927 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,601 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,477 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,544 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 187 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,247 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,248 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,225 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 168 | #1,276 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 181 | #1,188 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 174 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,049 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,081 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 209 | #972 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 221 | #909 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,229 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,911 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,820 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,847 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,769 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,870 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,679 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,696 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,504 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 93 | #1,321 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 133 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 170 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 148 | #972 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 147 | #953 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,190 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,401 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,565 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 67 | #1,452 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,527 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,114 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,867 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,701 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,638 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,585 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,342 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 77 | #1,265 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 72 | #1,234 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 44 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,820 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,804 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,915 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,500 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,163 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,254 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Star a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,432 Americans recorded as Star, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 92 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Star: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Star, and how old are they?
7,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 8,432 Americans ever recorded as Star. The median Star alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 7,873 people named Star (7,583 women and girls, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 58 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 865 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Star born?
The states with the most babies named Star are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,466 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,600 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,674 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,341 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,264 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,598 | 0.5× |
Where Star is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Star is most over-represented in California: since 1919 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Star with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 18,599 babies since 1880, Star is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 164 babies (62%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Star
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Star and names like it
- Compare Star and StarrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStar peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Star since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Star: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Star.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Star alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.