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How popular is the name Star?

Births per year, rank history and how many Stars are alive today.

Star (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1512th in 2025 and given to 20 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 61 babies were given the name, the 679th most popular that year. It has declined since 2012; the 2025 figure is roughly 33% of its peak. Star is one spelling of a name also recorded as Starr; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Star you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Stars born in England and Wales are between 10 and 23, and there are at least 1,500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Star - on average, only one in every 210 such rooms contains a Star.

How many babies are named Star each year?

Includes all spellings: Star, Starr. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Star spelling rank?

Where does the Starr spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.