Starling

girls:

210 births since 1930

#5506 (4th percentile)

boys:

979 births since 1880

#3613 (21st percentile)

overall:

1.2k births since 1880

#6551 (15th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Starling".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
210
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1930
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
1.3%
Peak Rank
#589
Current Rank
#935
Female statistics
Total Births
979
Peak Births
26
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
3.9%
Current Percentile
0.9%
Peak Rank
#185
Current Rank
#903
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Starling

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Starling. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 80.5% confident that Starling is pronounced as STAHR-lihng. The next most likely pronunciation is STAHR-lihng, at 14.6% confidence.

STAHR-lihng (2 syllables)
80.5% confidence
S T AA1 R L IH0 N G
STAHR-lihng (2 syllables)
Verified
14.6% confidence
S T AA1 R L IH0 NG
stahr-lihng (2 syllables)
4.9% confidence
S T AA0 R L IH0 N G

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Starling. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Starling, please vote using the thumbs up button.

STER-lihng (2 syllables)
2 names 39.8k births
S T ER1 L IH0 N G

Names with this pronunciation:

STAHR-leen (2 syllables)
4 names 1.9k births
S T AA1 R L IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S T AA1 R L IH0 N G) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.