Starr
29,409 people in the United States were counted with the surname Starr in the 2020 census, making it the 1,176th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 29,409
- Rank
- 1,176th
- How common
- 1 in 10,200
- Per 100,000
- 9.8
Where the name comes from
As an English surname, from the noun star.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Starr described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Starr
- Ringo Starr (born 1940)British musician, drummer for the Beatles
- Martin Starr (born 1982)American actor
- Ayra Starr (born 2002)Beninese-Nigerian singer
- Antony Starr (born 1975)New Zealand actor
- Ken Starr (1946–2022)American judge and educational administrator
- Mike Starr (born 1950)American actor
- Bobbi Starr (born 1983)American pornographic actress
- Belle Starr (1848–1889)American outlaw
People named Starr with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Starr
Also a first name
Starr has been given to 10,167 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1997. 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.