Star is an English word name meaning "star" or "celestial body", used as a given name since the 19th century and related in sense to the Latin Stella and the Persian Esther. It had its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s and remains a bright, straightforward choice in the line of Sky and Rain. Star ranked number 1051 in 2000, its best year this century, and sits at number 2062 in 2025.