Starla

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 54 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
54
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Starla by the numbers

Starla was given to 54 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 243 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Starla

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Starla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Sharlabeloved; a form of Charlotte or Charlene10 in the US (2017)
  • Stellastar5,038 in the US (2017)
  • Swarasound, note, or tone in music86 in the US (2017)
  • Shailamountain or rock50 in the US (2017)
  • Starrstar47 in the US (2017)
  • Sitarastar39 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Starla

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