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Sitara

#2,351 in 2025Girls' name

Star

Sitara has been given to 805 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,351 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Sitara, 2025

1 in 42,500

Sitara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sitara: meaning, origin, and history

Star

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sitara means

Sitara means “star”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 805 girls were recorded with the name Sitara between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,351 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,389 in 2020 to #2,351 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,208 in 2015 to #2,351 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sitara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,351
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sitara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sitara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sitaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sitara was born before 2018 — so the typical Sitara is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
805
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (353).

Is Sitara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+367
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,038
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,857
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (78)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,351
2025

Spellings of Sitara

Sitara is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 47.0% against Sitara's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sitara is used

Across 1910–2025, Sitara was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 193,841 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sitara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sitara around the world

Where Sitara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,699
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sitara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,351
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,038
Best rank ever
#2,351
2025
Peak year
2025
78 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
805
Count in 2025
78

Names similar to Sitara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sitara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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