Starla
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,231since 1942
Starla over time
Rank among girls' names. Starla has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #3,758 | 40 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 |
| 2022 | #3,278 | 49 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 |
| 2019 | #3,002 | 54 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 |
| 2013 | #2,439 | 74 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 |
| 2011 | #2,238 | 84 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 |
| 2007 | #2,858 | 63 |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 |
| 2003 | #2,577 | 62 |
| 2002 | #1,955 | 90 |
| 2001 | #2,171 | 75 |
| 2000 | #1,938 | 87 |
| 1999 | #1,786 | 89 |
| 1998 | #1,883 | 81 |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 |
| 1996 | #2,041 | 68 |
| 1995 | #2,028 | 67 |
| 1994 | #2,323 | 56 |
| 1993 | #1,898 | 74 |
| 1992 | #1,928 | 72 |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,311 | 120 |
| 1988 | #1,196 | 126 |
| 1987 | #1,329 | 103 |
| 1986 | #1,233 | 111 |
| 1985 | #1,133 | 127 |
| 1984 | #969 | 149 |
| 1983 | #1,041 | 134 |
| 1982 | #919 | 164 |
| 1981 | #756 | 218 |
| 1980 | #700 | 243 |
| 1979 | #885 | 171 |
| 1978 | #842 | 176 |
| 1977 | #884 | 162 |
| 1976 | #1,098 | 110 |
| 1975 | #1,043 | 114 |
| 1974 | #1,042 | 114 |
| 1973 | #911 | 135 |
| 1972 | #949 | 128 |
| 1971 | #1,010 | 123 |
| 1970 | #803 | 172 |
| 1969 | #845 | 150 |
| 1968 | #855 | 143 |
| 1967 | #800 | 156 |
| 1966 | #698 | 196 |
| 1965 | #708 | 193 |
| 1964 | #752 | 191 |
| 1963 | #728 | 198 |
| 1962 | #721 | 204 |
| 1961 | #750 | 192 |
| 1960 | #736 | 190 |
| 1959 | #785 | 168 |
| 1958 | #878 | 134 |
| 1957 | #878 | 135 |
| 1956 | #908 | 122 |
| 1955 | #961 | 106 |
| 1954 | #859 | 122 |
| 1953 | #1,071 | 81 |
| 1952 | #1,147 | 68 |
| 1951 | #1,239 | 56 |
| 1950 | #1,302 | 49 |
| 1949 | #1,666 | 32 |
| 1948 | #1,621 | 33 |
| 1947 | #1,863 | 27 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Starla! It came in at #3,444, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1944, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
Where Starla is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#579 · 1 in 2,809
- Texas#1,433 · 1 in 11,377
- California#2,010 · 1 in 20,803
Best ever in a state: #136 in Nevada, 1962.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #579 | 6 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Texas | #1,433 | 14 | 1 in 11,377 |
| California | #2,010 | 11 | 1 in 20,803 |
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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 Starla
- 1,341 spots since 2024 (#3,758 → #5,099)
- 1,649 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #5,099)
- 1,888 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #5,099)
- Biggest jump: 214 spots in 1977 (#1,098 → #884)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1971 (#803 → #1,010)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1966 at #698 (196 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1954–1970
- Highest: 1 in 6,833 girls born in 1980 were named Starla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #698 in 1966, was only 1 in 8,634 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.0% of all girls named Starla (1,813) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 148 | #1,621 (1948) | #2,451 |
| 1950s | 1,041 | #785 (1959) | #1,003 |
| 1960s | 1,813 | #698 (1966) | #759 |
| 1970s | 1,405 | #803 (1970) | #947 |
| 1980s | 1,495 | #700 (1980) | #1,059 |
| 1990s | 741 | #1,786 (1999) | #1,942 |
| 2000s | 737 | #1,938 (2000) | #2,405 |
| 2010s | 604 | #2,238 (2011) | #2,944 |
| 2020s | 247 | #3,274 (2023) | #3,766 |
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.
Starla in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 22,393 of them was named Starla, which outranked 88.5% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,155Naila83
- #2,155Passion83
- #2,155Stefani83
- #2,175Starla82
- #2,175Ailani82
- #2,175Allysa82
- #2,175Caden82
- #2,195Audrie81
- #2,195Brigitte81
- #2,195Davina81
Tied with 19 names at #2,175; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.