Starlette
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 727since 1943
Starlette over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Starlette has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
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| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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First appearance
1943
The first year at least five girls were named Starlette! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Starlette is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Starlette in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 5,115 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #8,362)
- 1,184 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #8,362)
- 6,120 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1965 at #2,833 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 80,635
- Highest: 1 in 80,635 girls born in 1982 were named Starlette (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,833 in 1965, was only 1 in 92,903 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
- 19.8% of all girls named Starlette (144) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 27 | #3,240 (1947) | #4,462 |
| 1950s | 80 | #3,309 (1957) | #4,163 |
| 1960s | 144 | #2,833 (1965) | #3,554 |
| 1970s | 114 | #3,761 (1977) | #5,281 |
| 1980s | 122 | #3,780 (1982) | #6,322 |
| 1990s | 26 | #9,247 (1990) | #11,652 |
| 2000s | 62 | #7,482 (2006) | #12,956 |
| 2010s | 90 | #7,880 (2010) | #11,497 |
| 2020s | 62 | #8,362 (2025) | #9,663 |
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.
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