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Stacie vs Starlyn

American parents have registered 39,317 Stacies since 1880, against 759 Starlyns. But in 2025 it was Starlyn that was commoner, 9 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stacie against Starlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stacie Starlyn

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 94 years in which either name was published, Stacie for 93 years and Starlyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Stacie Starlyn
Total US births 39,317759
Most in one year 2,57521
Babies in 2025 79
Estimated living today 37,000720
Median age today 4929
Peak year 19712007
Best rank 131st girls6,323rd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd10,107th
First recorded 19001946
Girls / boys 39,119 / 198743 / 16

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 Stacies alive today are over 49; half the Starlyns are over 29. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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