How Many People Are Named Starla?

7,606

people named Starla are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 44,936 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,231 babies named Starla in Social Security records from 1942 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,902

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,620

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Peak Year

1980

243 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: STAHR-lə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Elaborated form of STAR.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Starla in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Starla alive today is about 44 years old, and 50% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 60 in 2025.

Under 30 1,888
24.8%
30 to 59 3,768
49.5%
60 and over 1,950
25.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Starla first appears in the records in 1942 and was given most often in 1980, to 243 babies. In 2025, 25 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1942 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Starla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #700, in 1966. In 2025 it ranked #5,215.

Girls
Rank in 2025#5,215
Best rank#700 (1966)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#761 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Starla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Starla were born in California than in any other state: about 876 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Starla was given 5.7 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.4 times in Alabama and 2.9 times in Kansas.

California 876
Texas 767
Oklahoma 285
Alabama 234
Ohio 220
Indiana 211
Georgia 190
Illinois 185
Florida 139
Tennessee 135
Kansas 118
Missouri 105
Washington 102
North Carolina 84
Kentucky 78
Colorado 74
Oregon 54
Michigan 50
Iowa 46
Arizona 44
Louisiana 43
Arkansas 30
Nebraska 26
South Dakota 24
Pennsylvania 22
New Mexico 18
Virginia 10
Utah 6
Nevada 5
New York 5
Wyoming 4

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