Meaning not yet researched.
Starla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #700 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #700 in 1966; #5,216 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Starla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,216 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #700.
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Starla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #700 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 243 (1980).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Starla, making it the 5,216th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,405 places from #3,811 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 40 girls named Starla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #700, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 243, in 1980. For comparison, it was #3,251 in 2015 and #1,319 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Starla in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 8 babies. In all, 8,231 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,813 babies named Starla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 431 US girls were named Starla; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Starrla and Starlah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Starrla (49), Starlah (11).
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 Starla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,216 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,491 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1989 | 120 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1985 | 127 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1984 | 149 | #973 | — | — |
| 1983 | 134 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1982 | 164 | #922 | — | — |
| 1981 | 218 | #759 | — | — |
| 1980 | 243 | #702 | — | — |
| 1979 | 171 | #887 | — | — |
| 1978 | 176 | #844 | — | — |
| 1977 | 162 | #887 | — | — |
| 1976 | 110 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1973 | 135 | #916 | — | — |
| 1972 | 128 | #956 | — | — |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1970 | 172 | #809 | — | — |
| 1969 | 150 | #851 | — | — |
| 1968 | 143 | #858 | — | — |
| 1967 | 156 | #801 | — | — |
| 1966 | 196 | #700 | — | — |
| 1965 | 193 | #711 | — | — |
| 1964 | 191 | #755 | — | — |
| 1963 | 198 | #730 | — | — |
| 1962 | 204 | #723 | — | — |
| 1961 | 192 | #750 | — | — |
| 1960 | 190 | #739 | — | — |
| 1959 | 168 | #788 | — | — |
| 1958 | 134 | #882 | — | — |
| 1957 | 135 | #880 | — | — |
| 1956 | 122 | #913 | — | — |
| 1955 | 106 | #965 | — | — |
| 1954 | 122 | #863 | — | — |
| 1953 | 81 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1952 | 68 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,698 | — | — |
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).