Starling Surname

28,295th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18,992 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
England

Starling Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the starling'; formed from stair, a bird, with diminutive ling.

'The false lapwing, full of trecherie, The stare, that the counsaile can bewrie.': Chaucer, Assembly of Fowls.

(2) Nick.

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Starling Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States12,7621:28,4013,534
England3,3501:16,6322,412
Brazil8851:241,8929,337
Australia7091:38,0764,954
Canada5401:68,2337,861
South Africa1991:272,25027,005
Wales1021:30,3393,079
Russia631:2,287,668136,333
Dominican Republic621:168,2736,481
New Zealand481:94,34012,897
Scotland391:137,2778,372
Denmark201:282,23621,168
India181:42,614,743461,117
Ireland161:294,30910,207
Germany161:5,031,591189,895
Malaysia141:2,106,73083,604
Philippines131:7,787,556197,164
Nigeria111:16,103,887259,204
Sweden101:984,67673,605
Solomon Islands91:64,44812,261
Belarus81:1,187,63277,603
Netherlands81:2,110,89788,902
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Poland51:7,601,750167,855
France41:16,605,680368,153
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
China31:455,773,85521,925
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Ecuador31:5,301,94930,184
Moldova21:1,780,68455,103
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Kyrgyzstan21:2,986,32784,533
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Bulgaria21:3,489,45264,958
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
Finland21:2,748,35172,663
Costa Rica21:2,390,03410,205
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Vanuatu11:263,2762,086
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Gabon11:1,889,1946,814
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Honduras11:8,816,4429,272
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Laos11:6,588,3231,961
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland91:492,20716,355
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2,1811:11,1761,709
Scotland71:534,74514,325
Wales71:224,0598,079
Jersey21:25,9413,069
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,3711:36,6294,342

The alternate forms: Stärling (18) are calculated separately.

Starling (1,925) may also be a first name.

Starling Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the starling'; formed from stair, a bird, with diminutive ling.

'The false lapwing, full of trecherie, The stare, that the counsaile can bewrie.': Chaucer, Assembly of Fowls.

(2) Nick. 'the starling,' i.e. sterling, true, from starling, a coin.

'So that ye of the Frenchnobles or starlings.': Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales.

Symon Starlyng, Hertfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

William Starling, Norfolk, ibid.

Geoffrey Starlyng, Close Rolls, 17 Richard II.

It is probable that (1) is the true parent of the surname.

1622. Baptised — Christopher, s. Thomas Starling: St. James, Clerkenwell.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) 1 a nickname from the Starling (Middle English sterling, Old English stœrling, m., —stœr, starling + the (double) diminutive suff. -ling] 2 v. Sterling.

Starling.—Domesday-Book.

William Starling.—Hundred Rolls Cp. Stare.

(Scandinavian) belonging to Starling (Lancs, Cumb., etc.) [apparently N. and East. Dialectal English star(e (v. under Starmore), sedge, bent-grass + English ling, Old Norse lyng, heath]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

1. An ancient baptismal name in use before the Conquest, as we have Starlinc, and Starlingus in Domesday. 2. Perhaps from the bird, like Raven, Rook, Crow, See . 3. It may be a corruption of Stirling, the local name, or of Easterling. H.R, Starlyng, Sterlyng.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

(in H.R. Starlyng, Sterlyng). From Stirling, Scotland.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

From the Swedish, Stahlin; a personal name See Starr.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Starling: In the church of St. Peter, Mancroft, Norwich, there was a monument to four persons, named Richard Starling, who died between 1690 and 1729; two of them were carpenters and one an attorney - at - law (Bl.). Starling is still a Norwich name. Starlinc, according to Lower, was a pre - Domesday personal name.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Starling Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Starling Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Starling (Bengali: ষ্টারলিং, Hindi: स्टर्लिंग, Russian: Старлинг) is held by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Stärling. Click here for other possible spellings of Starling.

How Common Is The Last Name Starling? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 28,295th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 383,717 people. This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 75 percent of Starling reside; 70 percent reside in North America and 70 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Starling is also the 173,018th most commonly used given name at a global level It is held by 1,925 people.

The surname is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 12,762 people, or 1 in 28,401. In The United States it is most numerous in: Florida, where 20 percent are found, North Carolina, where 12 percent are found and Texas, where 11 percent are found. Aside from The United States Starling occurs in 74 countries. It is also found in England, where 18 percent are found and Brazil, where 5 percent are found.

Starling Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Starling has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Starling last name rose 931 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 154 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 1,457 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 557 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it rose 178 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Starling Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the surname is chiefly Presbyterian (78%) in Ireland and Orthodox (100%) in Russia.

In The United States those holding the Starling last name are 10.29% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.06% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Starling earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 81.02% more than the national average, earning R 430,164 per year; in United States they earn 8.05% less than the national average, earning $39,676 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.7% less than the national average, earning $49,336 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Starling Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Starling in the Bengali language
ষ্টারলিংstaralim-
Starling in the Hindi language
स्टर्लिंगstarlinga66.67
स्टारलिंगstaralinga33.33
Starling in the Russian language
Старлингstarling-

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