Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • American, English, Latin : A star
  • Latin : Star
  • French : Variation of Estella

Girl name variations

Star

Star

- 25% this year
Neutral
Rare
Find out more
Stella

Stella

0 % this year
Feminine
Common
Find out more
Stela

Stela

- 36% this year
Feminine
Rare
Find out more
Stellar

Stellar

+ 40% this year
Feminine
Rare
Find out more
Starla

Starla

+ 23% this year
Feminine
Rare
Find out more
Starling

Starling

- 18% this year
Feminine
Rare
Find out more

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Bright

Boy name variations

Star

Star

- 25% this year
Neutral
Rare
Find out more
Starri

Starri

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
Find out more
Starrie

Starrie

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
Find out more

How Popular Is The Name Starr

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English sterre, starre ‘star’. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the name denoted someone with a streak of white hair. It is possibly also a habitational name, for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a star.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Star 1 and 3.

Famous people with this last name

Famous people who gave their babies this name

Subscribe to Family Education

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe