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Stiorra

Gender
Girl
Say it
stee-OR-a
Origin
Old Norse
UK rank, 2025
#3,409 for girls
US rank, 2025
#5,409 for girls

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Stiorra is a girls' name of Old Norse origin, meaning “star”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).

What does Stiorra mean?

Old Norse: from Old Norse stjarna 'star', via Bernard Cornwell's novels

“star”

Stiorra is Uhtred's daughter in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories and the TV series The Last Kingdom.

Is Stiorra a girl's or a boy's name?

Stiorra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Stiorra in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,409among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 40,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 400% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Stiorra, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.

2022Busiest: 7 in 20252025
Stiorra in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#3,409
20245#4,253
20230–
20224#4,870

How popular is Stiorra in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,409among girls
Babies in 2025
23about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Newly popularnew in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Stiorra, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 2020.

Half of all the girls named Stiorra in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2020Busiest: 39 in 20242025
Stiorra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202523#5,409
202439#3,822
202328#4,743
202230#4,579
20219#10,287
20205#15,083

Names like Stiorra

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Old Norse names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Stiorra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/stiorra, updated 20 October 2026.