Starlet
Starlet was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,711 among girls’ names; 1,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Starlet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Starlet?
#14,711 among girls’ names, 2025
Starlet fell from #7,952 in 2015 to #14,711 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.7 per million.
29 babies in 1981, the peak
Starlet peaked in 1981, when 29 girls were given it, #3,054 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,711 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,025 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,916 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,444 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,064 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,261 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,085 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,603 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,357 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,952 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #10,062 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,412 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,792 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,648 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,127 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,829 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,904 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,728 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,860 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,718 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,003 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,984 | 6.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,603 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,582 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,274 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,817 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,271 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,445 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,642 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,116 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,061 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,686 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,612 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,574 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,061 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,826 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,841 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,855 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,750 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,054 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,306 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,377 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,753 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,487 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,322 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,562 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,673 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,132 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,521 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,924 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,694 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,765 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,145 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,625 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,345 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,669 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,593 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,354 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,593 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,044 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,564 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,797 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,950 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,111 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,612 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,712 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,510 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,291 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,396 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,679 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,645 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,980 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,846 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,421 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,616 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,164 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,289 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,408 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,999 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Starlet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Starlet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Starlet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Starlet, and how old are they?
An estimated 946 Americans named Starlet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 30 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Starlet (813 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 940 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,926 babies since 1880, Starlet is the most given (55% of them).
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 Starlet
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 Starlet and names like it
- Compare Starlet and StarlettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sStarlet peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Starlet since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Starlet.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Starlet alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.