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Worldwide, שטרן (Stern , Sterne , Shtern ) is a rare primarily boy's, but very infrequently feminine forename. The first name שטרן is habitual in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare boy's name, Austria, and Israel, where it is a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States, and Germany. Predominantly, שטרן is the last name as well as the forename.
שטרן is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Stern , the operatic character in the opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld!; Stern , the operatic character in the opera Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage; Anna's lawyer and Stern Alia , the Goddess.