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Starr vs Stasha

American parents have registered 10,167 Starrs since 1880, against 763 Stashas. Starr is still ahead, with 63 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Starr Stasha

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

Starr has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Starr had 116 and Stasha had 42.

Side by side

  Starr Stasha
Total US births 10,167763
Most in one year 30744
Babies in 2025 63under 5
Estimated living today 9,200740
Median age today 3637
Peak year 19971990
Best rank 714th girls2,640th girls
Rank in 2025 2,719thunranked
First recorded 19141965
Girls / boys 9,843 / 324763 / 0

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.

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