Star

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Star: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Star: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #430 in 2010, and it stood at #1,262 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#430highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#1176
1998	#1211
1999	#952
2000	#1095
2001	#898
2002	#1104
2003	#909
2004	#1072
2005	#916
2006	#909
2007	#866
2008	#632
2009	#638
2010	#664
2011	#776
2012	#679
2013	#999
2014	#1070
2015	#984
2016	#1211
2017	#982
2018	#1170
2019	#1017
2020	#1127
2021	#1351
2022	#857
2023	#981
2024	#1262

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2010: #430 among girls in Northern Ireland, #664 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Star appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 951 births with the name.

Star across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Star's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#632 (2008)	#1262 (2024)	29 of 29	951 (1996–2024)	61 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#2546 (2023)	#4270 (2024)	5 of 16	21 (2009–2024)	8 (2023)

Star by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Star in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000s	326	10 of 10	33
2010sbusiest	398	10 of 10	40
2020s	154	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 40 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 25, from 61 to 36.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Star appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #430 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Star's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1262	26	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#981	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1127	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1017	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#982	37	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1211	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#984	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#999	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#679	61	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#664	56	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#638	58	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#632	59	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#866	36	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#909	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#916	30	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#898	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #430, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 61 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 14 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Starla · #407, 22y
Starr · #1126, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Caris · #430, 26y
Marcy · #430, 26y
Yousuf · #430, 30y
Kenna · #431, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Caris · #430, 26y
Marcy · #430, 26y
Yousuf · #430, 30y
Kenna · #431, 26y

Star was ranked #430 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Star and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Star without appearing here.

Star moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1127 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #2499.
Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1095 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #898 and #2023.
Sharon Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1211 and #1142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #982 and #1817.
Barbara Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1351 and #1351 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #857 and #1685.

Moved ahead of Star

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1017 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1127 and #460.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #916 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #909 and #456.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #984 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1211 and #768.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #776 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #679 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Star

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Star went from #898 to #1262 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Star went from #664 to #1262 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #430 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Star across 2 official records

Star by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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