Meaning not yet researched.
Star: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #897 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #897 in 1980; #2,062 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Star in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,062 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #897.
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Star: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #897 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 221 (1997).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Star, making it the 2,062nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 151 places from #1,911 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 105 girls named Star in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #897, reached in 1980. The most girls given the name in a single year was 221, in 1997. For comparison, it was #2,102 in 2015 and #1,449 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Star in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 8,432 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,837 babies named Star.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,086 US girls were named Star; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Star ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,264 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Starr (10,167 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Star in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,264 | #1,569 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,341 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,598 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,674 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,466 | #2,023 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,600 | #2,037 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,062 | 9 | #8,825 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,074 | 5 | #13,913 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,664 | 5 | #13,817 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,640 | 10 | #8,131 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,790 | 7 | #10,614 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,114 | 5 | #13,922 |
| 2015 | 93 | #2,102 | 5 | #13,779 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2008 | 187 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 2004 | 168 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 2003 | 181 | #1,189 | 6 | #10,694 |
| 2002 | 174 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,131 | 5 | #12,073 |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,051 | 6 | #10,182 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1998 | 209 | #973 | 6 | #9,493 |
| 1997 | 221 | #910 | — | — |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,231 | 6 | #8,865 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,916 | 6 | #8,741 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,504 | 6 | #6,624 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1984 | 93 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,178 | 5 | #7,191 |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,147 | 9 | #4,536 |
| 1981 | 133 | #1,066 | 7 | #5,416 |
| 1980 | 170 | #897 | 5 | #7,165 |
| 1979 | 148 | #972 | 6 | #5,957 |
| 1978 | 147 | #953 | 7 | #4,984 |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,008 | 6 | #5,749 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,461 | 5 | #5,903 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,565 | 5 | #5,784 |
| 1972 | 67 | #1,452 | 5 | #5,648 |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1961 | 77 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,394 | 5 | #4,440 |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1956 | 72 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1949 | 44 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,165 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,722 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).