Girls' name · since 1979
Starlight
Starlight has 47 recorded births since 1979 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #35,796 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,237 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 47
- born since 1979
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Starlight is the #12237 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 47 recorded since 1979.
Starlight has 47 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12237 as of the latest data, more common than 29% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 2025.
- #35,796 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,237 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 47 born since 1979
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Starlight ranks #35,796 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,237 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 47 born since 1979, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,796 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,237 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 47
- born since 1979
- 2020s
- peak decade
Starlight's 47 recorded births place it above 50.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Starlight compares
47 15th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Starlight's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Starlight | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 47 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Starlight's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Starlight's full recorded timeline at 2020, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1996, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Starlight popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 47 years of records
Starlight by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Starlight's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Starlight births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (53% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Starlight: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~46 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Starlight draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.