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NAMES LIKE STERLING
Same rise and fall as Sterling, around the same years.
WHERE STERLING IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Sterling ranked highest in Alaska (#165) and lowest in New York (#1,856). 11 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Sterling name popularity
Sterling has been given to 41,197 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 2025, when 1,162 babies got the name, and its best rank was #568 in 2025.
In 2025, 1,162 babies were named Sterling (#568 in the country), its biggest year on record. That is up 71% from 2015.
About 9% of babies named Sterling were girls and 91% were boys.
An estimated 32K people named Sterling are alive in the US today, with a median age of 27.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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