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starr Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Middle English sterre, starre ‘star’. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the name denoted someone with a streak of white hair. It is possibly also a habitational name, for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a star.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The starr name in History

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Distribution of starr Families in the US in 1920
Number of starr families
 190-377
 64-189		 1-63
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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