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Stacee vs Starr

American parents have registered 10,167 Starrs since 1880, against 1,634 Stacees. Starr is still ahead, with 63 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stacee against Starr, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stacee Starr

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Starr for 105 years and Stacee for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Stacee Starr
Total US births 1,63410,167
Most in one year 75307
Babies in 2025 under 563
Estimated living today 1,5009,200
Median age today 4736
Peak year 19731997
Best rank 1,339th girls714th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,719th
First recorded 19541914
Girls / boys 1,634 / 09,843 / 324

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Stacees alive today are over 47; half the Starrs are over 36. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Stacee and Starr.