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First name origins & meanings:

  1. American, English, Latin: A star
  2. Latin: Star
  3. French: Variation of Estella
  4. English: Bright

First name variations: Star, Stela, Stellar, Star, Starla, Starling, Stella, Star, Starri, Starrie

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.

Famous people with this last name: Ringo Starr

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Ted Nugent

This name appears in the following lists: Cowboys and Cowgirls, Rock Kings and Queens