Stanford vs Starr

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Stanford 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 131 years in which either name was published, Stanford for 67 years and Starr for 64 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

• 1880–1955 Stanford ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1958–1961 Starr ahead
• 1965–1968 Stanford ahead
• 1974–2025 Starr ahead

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Stanfords alive today are over 59; half the Starrs are over 36. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Stanford Hawaii (14.4×), Louisiana (3.7×), Pennsylvania (3.0×)
• Starr Michigan (2.2×), New York (2.0×), Florida (2.0×)

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

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