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Starla

#5,215 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Star

Starla has been given to 8,231 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #5,215 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 243 recorded.

Babies named Starla, 2025

1 in 133,000

Starla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Starla: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Star

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Starla means

Starla is a form of Star.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Starla → Star. The family’s meaning is “starling”, recorded in English with the source elements Star.

Origin, language, and formation

Starla is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Star.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,231 girls were recorded with the name Starla between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 243 in 1980; its best national rank was #700 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,491 in 2020 to #5,215 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,251 in 2015 to #5,215 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Starla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,215
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Starla 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Starla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Starlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Starla was born before 1978 — so the typical Starla is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,083
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (1,813).

Is Starla 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
−1,404
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,724
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,964
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 1980 (243)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#700
1966

Spellings of Starla

Starla is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 34.5% against Starla's 0.65%.

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 Starla is used

Across 1910–2025, Starla was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 28,257 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 7,143
  2. 2Alabama1 in 11,111
  3. 3Kansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Indiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 20,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 25,000

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. Starla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Starla around the world

Where Starla 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
    2003–2024
    #1,895
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Starla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,215
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,724
Best rank ever
#700
1966
Peak year
1980
243 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,231
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Starla

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

StaciaStarrStasiaSharlaStarStacieCharlaStarletStaceeStaceyPerlaStassiStaciStarlynStarrlaVerlaMarlaStashaDarlaStacyStanleyArlaStarlettPearla

Names with a curve like Starla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Starla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SaritaRenaeJolynnLeeannJonnaAnnemarieTanaKevinJeannaJeanaBrigitteSuzanna

Sibling names for Starla

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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