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
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 170 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,275since 1922
Star over time
Rank among girls' names. Star has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,051 | 92 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #1,895 | 105 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,062 | 94 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #2,034 | 95 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,593 | 131 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,629 | 130 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #1,925 | 103 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,779 | 117 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #2,088 | 93 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,876 | 107 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,918 | 104 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,591 | 136 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,469 | 152 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,357 | 172 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,538 | 147 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,320 | 187 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,244 | 199 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,240 | 194 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,222 | 186 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,273 | 168 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,187 | 181 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,179 | 174 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,127 | 186 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,049 | 198 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,077 | 186 | — | |
| 1998 | #972 | 209 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #907 | 221 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,225 | 143 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #1,810 | 79 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,841 | 78 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,761 | 83 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,913 | 73 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,862 | 76 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,667 | 82 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,788 | 70 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,678 | 72 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,494 | 83 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,315 | 93 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,169 | 112 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #1,138 | 123 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #1,064 | 133 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #893 | 170 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #970 | 148 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #952 | 147 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #1,004 | 134 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #1,182 | 96 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,381 | 76 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,448 | 69 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #1,548 | 60 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #1,448 | 67 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #1,516 | 66 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,081 | 39 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,835 | 45 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,617 | 49 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,568 | 51 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,741 | 42 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,372 | 67 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,372 | 65 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,332 | 69 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,260 | 77 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,266 | 75 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,281 | 70 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,379 | 59 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #1,159 | 83 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,228 | 72 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,404 | 51 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,409 | 51 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,503 | 42 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,487 | 42 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,462 | 41 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,433 | 41 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,393 | 44 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,267 | 52 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,097 | 66 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,808 | 25 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,060 | 17 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 | — | |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
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| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
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| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 | — | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Minnesota#843 · 1 in 4,805
- Florida#845 · 1 in 4,977
- Virginia#1,015 · 1 in 6,064
- Tennessee#1,053 · 1 in 5,974
- New Jersey#1,170 · 1 in 7,303
Best ever in a state: #233 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #843 | 5 | 1 in 4,805 |
| Florida | #845 | 16 | 1 in 4,977 |
| Virginia | #1,015 | 6 | 1 in 6,064 |
| Tennessee | #1,053 | 5 | 1 in 5,974 |
| New Jersey | #1,170 | 5 | 1 in 7,303 |
| North Carolina | #1,179 | 6 | 1 in 7,326 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,792 |
| Texas | #1,294 | 18 | 1 in 8,795 |
| California | #1,452 | 19 | 1 in 11,004 |
| New York | #1,490 | 9 | 1 in 10,252 |
| Illinois | #1,631 | 5 | 1 in 11,751 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Star
- 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)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1980 at #893 (170 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1978–1980
- 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
- 22.0% of all girls named Star (1,820) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 20 | #2,612 (1922) | #3,243 |
| 1930s | 49 | #2,386 (1936) | #3,378 |
| 1940s | 273 | #1,097 (1947) | #2,009 |
| 1950s | 552 | #1,159 (1957) | #1,375 |
| 1960s | 588 | #1,260 (1961) | #1,504 |
| 1970s | 902 | #952 (1978) | #1,353 |
| 1980s | 1,000 | #893 (1980) | #1,402 |
| 1990s | 1,221 | #907 (1997) | #1,527 |
| 2000s | 1,820 | #1,049 (2000) | #1,238 |
| 2010s | 1,207 | #1,357 (2010) | #1,773 |
| 2020s | 643 | #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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,949 of them was named Star, which outranked 91.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,583Melia137
- #1,583Shaniyah137
- #1,583Vida137
- #1,591Star136
- #1,591Amarie136
- #1,591Avril136
- #1,591Deja136
- #1,602Adamaris135
- #1,602Aleyah135
- #1,602Eunice135
Tied with 10 names at #1,591; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.