Starla
Starla was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,215 among girls’ names; 8,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,570 Americans named Starla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 31 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Starla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Starla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Starla is “a female given name.”
Possibly derived from the word star.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Starla?
#5,215 among girls’ names, 2025
Starla fell from #3,251 in 2015 to #5,215 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 15.6 per million.
243 babies in 1980, the peak
Starla peaked in 1980, when 243 girls were given it, #702 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,215 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,811 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,321 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,309 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,792 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,491 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,036 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,994 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,011 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,989 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,251 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,882 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,457 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,472 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,256 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,474 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,849 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,459 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,887 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,577 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,571 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,190 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,601 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,964 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,186 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,945 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,799 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,895 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,860 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,054 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,041 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,343 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,914 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,938 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,868 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 120 | #1,310 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,333 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,239 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 127 | #1,136 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 149 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 134 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 164 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 218 | #759 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 243 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 171 | #887 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 176 | #844 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 162 | #887 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 110 | #1,103 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,047 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 135 | #916 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 128 | #956 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,014 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 172 | #809 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 150 | #851 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 143 | #858 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 156 | #801 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 196 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 193 | #711 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 191 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 198 | #730 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 204 | #723 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 192 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 190 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 168 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 134 | #881 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 135 | #879 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 122 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 106 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 122 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 81 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 68 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Starla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Starla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Starla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Starla, and how old are they?
7,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 8,231 Americans ever recorded as Starla. The median Starla alive today is 47 years old; half are between 31 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 6,520 people named Starla (6,515 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,730 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
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 Starla born?
The states with the most babies named Starla are California, Texas and Oklahoma, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 945 | #2,735 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 822 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Oklahoma | 307 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 257 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 246 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 232 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 206 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 203 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 146 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 145 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Starla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Starla is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1942 it was given 2.8 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 Starla 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,459 babies since 1880, Starla is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 39 babies (64%), again the most given.
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 Starla
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 Starla and names like it
- Compare Starla and StarleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sStarla peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Starla since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Starla.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Starla alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.