starUs

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/stɑɹəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

starUs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 146K(measured from records)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 3.8Mas Старус
  • RURussia≈1 in 11Mas Старус

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 starUs 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.

Poland (measured from records)

263 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

starUsLatin(measured from records)
СтарусCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Старусь in RU Russia and Старус in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

starUs 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.

Where starUs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2631 in 146K133——
RU Russia≈13 est.≈1 in 11M—Старусь22
UA Ukraine≈11 est.≈1 in 3.8M—Старус7
US United States——listed——

263 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

starUs is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Staruș, Stărus, Stăruș

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

starUs is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, accusative plural of stars

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, conditional of stari

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Starus,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting starUs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026133—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—133#23,837
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026130—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—130#23,824
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 do you pronounce starUs?
A machine transcription gives /stɑɹəs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does starUs have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 263 people named starUs, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is starUs most common?
starUs is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 146 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name starUs?
In Poland, the national register counted 263 people named starUs in 2026, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.

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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, “starUs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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