Starling

Starling is the 3,628th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,541 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,300.

By the numbers

People: 9,541
Rank: 3,628th
How common: 1 in 31,300
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Starling described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.0%
Black, not Hispanic 25.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Starling

Angela Beesley Starling (born 1977)co-founder of Wikia
Ernest Starling (1866–1927)British physiologist

People named Starling with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Starling

Also a first name

Starling has been given to 1,226 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.