Star

#2,051 for girls in 2025, 92 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 98.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
1980 · 170 births
Debut · girls
13 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
8,275
since 1922

Star over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Star has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201922peak #893, 1980girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,05192#8,2439
2024#1,895105—
2023#2,06294#12,2395
2022#2,03495—
2021#1,652126#12,1465
2020#1,593131—
2019#1,629130#7,64310
2018#1,925103—
2017#1,779117#9,6967
2016#2,09393#12,1855
2015#2,08893#12,0865
2014#1,876107—
2013#1,918104—
2012#1,591136—
2011#1,469152—
2010#1,357172—
2009#1,538147—
2008#1,320187—
2007#1,244199—
2006#1,240194—
2005#1,222186—
2004#1,273168—
2003#1,187181#9,5816
2002#1,179174—
2001#1,127186#10,5565
2000#1,049198#9,1126
1999#1,077186—
1998#972209#8,4796
1997#907221—
1996#1,225143#7,9716
1995#1,90073#7,7926
1994#1,81079—
1993#1,84178—
1992#1,76183—
1991#1,91373—
1990#1,86276—
1989#1,66782—
1988#1,78870—
1987#1,67872—
1986#1,49483#5,9266
1985#1,80962—
1984#1,31593—
1983#1,169112#6,2385
1982#1,138123#4,2349
1981#1,064133#4,9617
1980#893170#6,2505
1979#970148#5,3556
1978#952147#4,5547
1977#1,004134#5,1236
1976#1,18296—
1975#1,38176—
1974#1,44869#5,2275
1973#1,54860#5,1015
1972#1,44867#4,9865
1971#1,51666—
1970#2,08139—
1969#1,83545—
1968#1,67848—
1967#1,61749—
1966#1,56851—
1965#1,74142—
1964#1,37267—
1963#1,37265—
1962#1,33269—
1961#1,26077—
1960#1,26675—
1959#1,28170—
1958#1,37959#3,9445
1957#1,15983—
1956#1,22872—
1955#1,40451—
1954#1,40951—
1953#1,50342—
1952#1,48742—
1951#1,46241—
1950#1,43341—
1949#1,39344—
1948#1,26752—
1947#1,09766—
1946#1,80825—
1945#2,06017—
1944#2,02718—
1943#2,25116—
1942#2,41614—
1941#2,27214—
1940#3,5037—
1939#2,73610—
1938#3,4507—
1937#2,73510—
1936#2,38612—
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First appearance
1922

The first year at least five girls were named Star! It came in at #2,612, and was given to 13 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1923–1925, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Star is popular in 1922

No state had 5 or more girls named Star in 1922, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Star
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 156 spots since 2024 (#1,895 → #2,051)
  • 458 spots since 2020 (#1,593 → #2,051)
  • 37 spots since 2015 (#2,088 → #2,051)
  • Biggest jump: 318 spots in 1997 (#1,225 → #907)
  • Biggest drop: 171 spots in 1981 (#893 → #1,064)
Rise & fade · girls
58 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1922
  • Peaked 1980 at #893 (170 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1978–1980
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,877
  • Highest: 1 in 7,877 girls born in 1997 were named Star (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,470 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #893 in 1980, was only 1 in 9,767 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 22.0% of all girls named Star (1,820) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s20#2,612 (1922)#3,243
1930s49#2,386 (1936)#3,378
1940s273#1,097 (1947)#2,009
1950s552#1,159 (1957)#1,375
1960s588#1,260 (1961)#1,504
1970s902#952 (1978)#1,353
1980s1,000#893 (1980)#1,402
1990s1,221#907 (1997)#1,527
2000s1,820#1,049 (2000)#1,238
2010s1,207#1,357 (2010)#1,773
2020s643#1,593 (2020)#1,881

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Star in 1922

girls
#2,612
13 births · 1 in 92,385 girls

Top girls' names in 1922

  1. #1Mary72,177
  2. #2Dorothy37,716
  3. #3Helen32,510
  4. #4Margaret26,862
  5. #5Ruth23,633
  6. #6Betty20,895
  7. #7Virginia19,144
  8. #8Mildred16,412
  9. #9Elizabeth15,244
  10. #10Frances15,054
  11. #2,612Star13
More about 1922

girls

1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 92,385 of them was named Star, which outranked 54.9% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Star
  1. #2,479Wyoma14
  2. #2,479Zilpha14
  3. #2,479Zulema14
  4. #2,612Star13
  5. #2,612Abby13
  6. #2,612Alfa13
  7. #2,612Alliene13
  8. #2,780Agusta12
  9. #2,780Almetta12
  10. #2,780Almyra12

Tied with 167 names at #2,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
  1. ↑ 626Lilia#1,543 → #917
  2. ↑ 573Leatrice#1,258 → #685
  3. ↑ 412Phylis#1,409 → #997
  4. ↑ 352Darleen#1,258 → #906
  5. ↑ 295Madlyn#1,136 → #841
Fallers
  1. ↓ 518Erlene#946 → #1,464
  2. ↓ 390Exie#879 → #1,269
  3. ↓ 327Arlyne#905 → #1,232
  4. ↓ 288Toby#964 → #1,252
  5. ↓ 265Rochelle#987 → #1,252

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1922 →