Star
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Star is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 36K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 55K
- GHGhana≈1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Star itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sl. crapz batrin". 1. Starteni s., olt. (Sd XXII) < *Starlea. 2. Compus prob. din star -I- Vilcu : Stravolca, Sc. 1848 (IC) 67). 3. Cf. cu afer. -oga Taroga b., olt (17 B 1 368). Starec, -a v. S t I r c 3.
Cited for this meaning 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Star, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Star counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Star | 16 |
| US United States | 2,097 | 1 in 159K | 7.6K | Star | 318 |
| NL Netherlands | 484 | 1 in 36K | 484 | Star | 47 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 3 | Star | 117 |
| GH Ghana | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Star | 14 |
| DK Denmark | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 9 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Darren Starb. 1961USAmerican television producer, writer
- Star Jonesb. 1962USAmerican lawyer, television personality, fashion designer, author and women's and diversity advocate (born 1962)
- Celestia Starb. 1976GBBritish pornographic actress
- Ryan Starb. 1978USAmerican musician
- Charmane Starb. 1980USAmerican pornographic actress & model
- Lela Starb. 1985USAmerican pornographic actress
- Celeste Starb. 1985USAmerican pornographic actress
- Sabrina Starb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress
- Luna Starb. 1989CUCuban pornographic actress
- Nastya Starmusician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Star?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,097 people named Star in 2010, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- In which country does Star have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Star in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled star.
- Where is Star most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Star is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Star?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/starThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Star”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.