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The STARR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,210 1135 0.01 105
United States (1880 census) 6,409 945 0.013 128
Change since 1880 +21801 -190 -0.003 -23
Other Countries
Australia 1,731 940 0.011 106
United Kingdom 2,387 2546 0.005 52
Top States for STARR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,601 1204 0.008 77
Texas 2,029 1207 0.010 97
Florida 1,777 1114 0.011 111
Ohio 1,693 718 0.015 149
Pennsylvania 1,535 821 0.012 125
Top States for STARR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 149 449 0.024 238
Oregon 738 481 0.022 216
Vermont 123 799 0.020 202
Oklahoma 633 696 0.018 183
South Dakota 127 565 0.017 168

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called STARR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called STARR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called STARR in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a STARR by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of STARR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the STARR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the STARR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of STARR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 841 2.98
White (Hispanic) 505 1.79
Mixed Race 465 1.65
Asian/Pacific 138 0.49
White (Caucasian) 24,077 85.35
Black/African American 2,183 7.74

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the STARR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of STARR in historical publications


(German.) Stiff, rigid, inflexible.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


STAR. STARR. Perhaps from the sign of an inn ; but more likely from an ancient personal name written in Domesd. Ster and Sterr. It is Star without prefix in PI.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to STARR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STARR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for STARR

The following words are slight variants of STARR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.