Meaning not yet researched.
Starr: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #651 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #651 in 1948; #2,747 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Starr in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,747 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #651.
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Starr: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #651 in 1948 · most girls in one year: 302 (1997).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Starr, making it the 2,747th most common girls’ name of the year, down 218 places from #2,529 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 71 girls named Starr in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #651, reached in 1948. The most girls given the name in a single year was 302, in 1997. For comparison, it was #2,499 in 2015 and #1,062 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Starr in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 13 babies. In all, 10,167 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,604 babies named Starr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 806 US girls were named Starr; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Star (8,432 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Starr 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 | 63 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 2008 | 150 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2006 | 131 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,531 | 5 | #13,091 |
| 2004 | 141 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2002 | 194 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2001 | 178 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 2000 | 198 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1999 | 209 | #989 | 6 | #9,743 |
| 1998 | 259 | #825 | — | — |
| 1997 | 302 | #714 | 5 | #10,600 |
| 1996 | 166 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,527 | 6 | #8,561 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1990 | 122 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,274 | 6 | #7,787 |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,333 | 8 | #5,669 |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,339 | 5 | #7,683 |
| 1985 | 115 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1984 | 145 | #1,001 | 5 | #7,191 |
| 1983 | 161 | #928 | 7 | #5,416 |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,038 | 6 | #6,294 |
| 1981 | 191 | #828 | 5 | #7,144 |
| 1980 | 213 | #776 | 5 | #7,166 |
| 1979 | 195 | #812 | — | — |
| 1978 | 169 | #872 | 8 | #4,510 |
| 1977 | 183 | #823 | 7 | #5,051 |
| 1976 | 131 | #976 | 9 | #3,966 |
| 1975 | 116 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,197 | 5 | #5,904 |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,543 | 6 | #4,846 |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,471 | 6 | #4,663 |
| 1969 | 80 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,322 | 6 | #4,087 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1966 | 62 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1964 | 105 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1963 | 93 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1962 | 105 | #1,056 | 5 | #4,557 |
| 1961 | 113 | #1,030 | 7 | #3,616 |
| 1960 | 106 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1959 | 115 | #990 | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1958 | 136 | #876 | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1957 | 111 | #987 | 6 | #3,939 |
| 1956 | 135 | #860 | 8 | #3,182 |
| 1955 | 87 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1954 | 103 | #957 | — | — |
| 1953 | 104 | #929 | 6 | #3,755 |
| 1952 | 97 | #952 | 7 | #3,336 |
| 1951 | 97 | #944 | 5 | #4,190 |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1949 | 96 | #908 | 5 | #4,142 |
| 1948 | 164 | #651 | 9 | #2,763 |
| 1947 | 120 | #796 | 10 | #2,653 |
| 1946 | 78 | #944 | — | — |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,287 | 10 | #2,380 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,335 | 5 | #3,845 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,362 | 8 | #2,939 |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,239 | 6 | #3,455 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,194 | 5 | #3,882 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,401 | 6 | #3,447 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,643 | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,140 | 5 | #3,990 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,709 | 7 | #3,224 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,129 | 6 | #3,632 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,617 | 5 | #4,222 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,829 | 6 | #4,155 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,138 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,921 | 6 | #4,185 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,764 | 5 | #4,900 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,218 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,486 | 8 | #3,335 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,834 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,555 | 7 | #2,875 |
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).