# Starling (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/starling/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English surname transferred from the nickname from a nickname for a gregarious person.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 10,004 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,567 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 30,862 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.1% (9,337 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Starling in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 68% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 27% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Starling in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Starling

- Simon Starling, British artist (born 1967)
- Bubba Starling, American professional baseball player

## Similar surnames

Sterling, Stirling, Sutherlin, Sutherland, Southerland, Strohl, Satterlee, Straley, Soderlund, Strahl, Satterly.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.