Shterna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHTER-na
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Shterna is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “star”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Shterna mean?
Germanic: Yiddish name, from shtern 'star'
“star”
A Yiddish name from shtern, 'star', used especially in Hasidic families.
Is Shterna a girl's or a boy's name?
Shterna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shterna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Shterna, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Shterna in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shterna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
Names like Shterna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Saanvi, Arya, Sasha, Anya, Isha, Adhara, Yara, Aarna, Anika, Rivka, Krisha
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shterna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shterna, updated 20 October 2026.