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Sterling

Pronounced /ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/

Rank in 2024
#372
Born in 2024
880
Peak year
2024 · #372
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:218 in 2024 (#1,116)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 880 boys were named Sterling, about 1 in every 1,949.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 36,521 boys have been named Sterling since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sterling per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,976 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Silent: 3,689 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,944 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,464 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,190 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,227 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,592 babies, 0.40 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

See Stirling.

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Sterling, CC BY-SA 4.0.