Starling
Starling reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,457, and has been recorded 1,226 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 640 Starlings are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Starling boys named Starling
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,226
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,457th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,446th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 225 / 1,001
How old the living Starlings are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,226 babies given the name since 1880, about 640 are alive — 52 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Starlings
- William Starling Sullivant (1803–1873)US bryologist
- Starling Marte (born 1988)baseball player
People named Starling with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Starling is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Starling peaked:
Related names
Starling against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.