girls:
9.7k births since 1914
#1626 (72nd percentile)
boys:
324 births since 1914
#4262 (7th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1914
#2668 (66th percentile)
The name Starr is the #2,668 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,025 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 65.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,626 (71.6% percentile) for all time with 9,701 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,262 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 324 births since 1914.
Starr first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 . Birth data for Starr is available in 105 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (101 years for girls and 51 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Starr has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.8% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1922, the name was more popular for boys (57.1% boys from 1914 to 1921), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.1% girls from 1922 to 2023).
For girls, Starr reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 33.8% percentile (ranked #572) with 158 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 158 births per million (ranked 33.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Starr ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 25.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Starr reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #531) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Starr".
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