Gender:
Origin:
English
183 famous people named Sterling found on Wikipedia.
31654 male, 2513 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
409-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
308-th in year 1895
Used in: English
Transferred use of the surname, which is a variant of the English Starling. It is derived from the Old English stærling (a starling, a type of bird) and arose as a nickname in reference to the bird. Modern use of the name often equates it to the vocabulary word sterling (silver; of excellent quality).
C. 1300, "silver penny," perhaps from Middle English sterre (see star (n.)), according to OED "presumably" from the stars that appeared in the design of certain Norman coins, + diminutive suffix -ling. But starred coins were not especially common among Anglo-Saxon currency, and the stars on them tended to be small. The other theory [Kluge] is that it derives from Old French estedre "stater" (see stater). Sense broadened by 1560s to "money having the quality of the sterling," and c. 1600 to "English money in general." As an adjective from early 15c. From 1640s in general sense of "capable of standing a test" (as a sound coin would). A pound sterling was originally "a pound weight of sterlings," equal to about 240 of them.
Little star, stellar, silver, of excellent quality.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Raheem Sterling | 1994 | Footballer |
2 | Sterling K. Brown | 2000 | American actor |
3 | Sterling Knight | 1989 | American actor and musician |
4 | Donald Sterling | 1934 | An American business magnate and former attorney |
5 | Sterling Holloway | 1905 | American actor |
6 | Sterling Hayden | 1916 | American actor |
7 | Mindy Sterling | 1953 | American actress |
8 | Sterling Sharpe | 1965 | American football wide receiver |
9 | Sterling Archer | Sterling Archer | |
10 | Sterling Jerins | 2004 | American actress |
11 | Jim Sterling | 1984 | Gaming commentator and critic on YouTube |
12 | Aljamain Sterling | 1989 | American mixed martial artist |
13 | Sterling Shepard | 1994 | |
14 | Roger Sterling | ||
15 | Jan Sterling | 1921 | American actress |
16 | Tisha Sterling | 1944 | Actress |
17 | Sterling Marlin | 1957 | American racing driver |
18 | Maury Sterling | 1971 | American actor |
19 | Sterling Morrison | 1942 | American musician |
20 | Sterling Beaumon | 1995 | American actor |
21 | Sterling Price | 1809 | Confederate Army general |
22 | George Sterling | 1869 | American poet and playwright |
23 | Nici Sterling | 1968 | British-born American pornographic actress and adult model |
24 | Peter Sterling | 1960 | Australian rugby league player |
25 | Jeffrey Alexander Sterling | American CIA officer | |
26 | Sterling Moore | 1990 | American football player |
27 | Sterling Ruby | 1972 | American artist |
28 | Linder Sterling | 1954 | British artist |
29 | Dan Sterling | American screenwriter | |
30 | Sterling Allen Brown | 1901 | American writer |
31 | Alexandre Sterling | 1966 | French actor |
32 | Sterling Saint Jacques | 1957 | American singer, actor and model |
33 | Sterling North | 1906 | American children's writer |
34 | Sterling Fox | 1983 | Musician |
35 | Ross S. Sterling | 1875 | American politician |
36 | Ford Sterling | 1883 | American comedian |
37 | Neal Sterling | 1992 | |
38 | Darcy Sterling | 1969 | |
39 | Nick Sterling | 1990 | American musician |
40 | Sterling Hitchcock | 1971 | American professional baseball player |
41 | Sterling Jarvis | Canadian actor and singer | |
42 | Aaron Sterling | 1980 | American musician |
43 | Molly Sterling | 1998 | Irish singer |
44 | Manuel Márquez Sterling | 1872 | Cuban journalist, diplomat and politician |
45 | Sterling Seagrave | 1937 | American historian |
46 | Sterling B. Hendricks | 1902 | American agriculturist |
47 | Sterling Brown | 1995 | |
48 | Debbie Sterling | 1983 | American busiensswoman |
49 | Rex Sterling | ||
50 | Sterling Simms | 1982 | American singer-songwriter |
51 | Lexi Sterling | ||
52 | Brett Sterling | 1984 | American ice hockey player |
53 | Sterling Gates | 1981 | American comic book writer |
54 | Scott Sterling | 1972 | Professional golfer |
55 | Sterling M. McMurrin | 1914 | American theologian |
56 | John William Sterling | 1844 | Lawyer and Yale benefactor |
57 | Wallace Sterling | 1906 | American historian |
58 | Sterling Van Wagenen | American film director | |
59 | Lester Sterling | 1936 | Jamaican musician |
60 | Sterling C. Robertson | 1785 | Texas politician |
61 | Sterling Lyon | 1927 | Canadian politician |
62 | Matt Sterling | 1942 | American pornographic film director |
63 | Christopher H. Sterling | 1943 | American media historian |
64 | Sterling E. Lanier | 1927 | American writer |
65 | Sterling W. Sill | 1903 | American Mormon leader |
66 | Frank Sterling | ||
67 | Claire Sterling | 1919 | American journalist |
68 | Michael Sterling | 1946 | British professor and university administrator |
69 | Ashleigh Sterling | 1983 | Actress |
70 | Randy Sterling | 1951 | American baseball player |
71 | Sterling Davis | 1977 | American basketball player-coach |
72 | Richard Sterling | 1952 | American writer |
73 | Sterling Foster Black | 1924 | American politician |
74 | Dana Sterling | ||
75 | Sterling Roswell | British singer | |
76 | Andrew B. Sterling | 1874 | American songwriter |
77 | Norm Sterling | 1942 | Canadian politician |
78 | Carlos Márquez Sterling | 1898 | Cuban lawyer, writer, politician and diplomat |
79 | Adam Sterling | 1983 | American humanitarian |
80 | Dorothy Sterling | 1913 | American writer |
81 | Sterling Nesbitt | 1982 | American paleontologist |
82 | Sterling Palmer | 1971 | American football player |
83 | Bunny Sterling | 1948 | Jamaican boxer |
84 | Keith Sterling | 1952 | Musician |
85 | Sterling Bailey | 1992 | |
86 | Miriya Parina Sterling | ||
87 | Sterling Newberry | 1915 | American inventor |
88 | Guy Sterling | 1948 | |
89 | Sterling Winfield | 1970 | Record producer |
90 | Max Sterling | ||
91 | Worrell Sterling | 1965 | English footballer |
92 | Sterling D. Plumpp | 1940 | American poet and writer |
93 | Sterling Lord | 1920 | |
94 | Sterling Tucker | 1923 | American politician |
95 | Sterling Hinds | 1961 | Athletics and football competitor |
96 | Sterling Silversmith | ||
97 | Sterling Elliott | 1852 | American inventor |
98 | Sterling Hundley | 1976 | American artist |
99 | Merta Sterling | 1883 | American actress |
100 | Dee Sterling | 1986 | Canadian football player |
101 | Varcan Sterling | 1988 | Colombian association football player |
102 | Antoinette Sterling | 1850 | American singer |
103 | Leon Sterling | Australian computer scientist | |
104 | Sterling Belliveau | Canadian politician | |
105 | John Whelan Sterling | 1816 | |
106 | Sterling Brinkley | 1952 | American businessman |
107 | Charles Sterling | 1901 | Polish art historian |
108 | Fred Sterling | 1869 | American politician |
109 | Sterling Hershey | Role-playing game designer | |
110 | Sterling Slaughter | 1941 | American baseball player |
111 | Newton Sterling | 1984 | Jamaican footballer |
112 | Sterling Clarren | American medical researcher | |
113 | Philip Sterling | 1922 | American actor |
114 | Paul Sterling | 1964 | English rugby league player |
115 | Florence M. Sterling | 1871 | |
116 | Sterling Flunder | 1986 | American soccer player |
117 | Alicyn Sterling | 1971 | American pornographic actress and adult model |
118 | Sterling R. Cockrill | 1925 | Arkansas businessman, politician, urban planner, and artist |
119 | Sterling Lands II | 1944 | Senior pastor of Greater Calvary Bible Church |
120 | Sterling Betancourt | 1930 | Musician |
121 | Sterling Watson | American writer | |
122 | Micah Sterling | 1784 | American politician |
123 | Sterling Bose | 1906 | American musician |
124 | Bruce Foster Sterling | 1870 | American politician |
125 | Sterling Ridge | 1936 | American mayor |
126 | Sterling L. Morelock | 1890 | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient |
127 | Arnold Sterling | 1938 | American jazz saxophonist |
128 | Donnie Sterling | American musician | |
129 | Sterling Stuckey | American historian | |
130 | Robert Sterling | American songwriter | |
131 | Eleonore Sterling | 1925 | German university teacher (1925-1968) |
132 | Bryan Sterling | 1922 | American writer |
133 | John Sterling | 1964 | American football player |
134 | Lance Sterling | ||
135 | John Allen Sterling | 1857 | American politician |
136 | Ansel Sterling | 1782 | American politician |
137 | Starla Sterling | 1986 | American pornographic actress |
138 | Rachel Sterling | 1979 | American actress and model |
139 | Sterling P. Strong | 1862 | American politician |
140 | Sterling Houston | 1943 | American actor, writer and musician |
141 | Ross N. Sterling | 1931 | United States federal judge |
142 | Sterling A. Galt | 1866 | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient |
143 | Anthony Coningham Sterling | 1805 | British historian |
144 | Bruce Sterling | ||
145 | Edward Sterling | 1773 | British journalist |
146 | Sterling Campbell | 1942 | Canadian politician |
147 | Sterling Wescott | 1972 | American soccer player-coach |
148 | Marc Sterling | 1895 | French painter |
149 | Sterling Long-Colbo | American businessman | |
150 | Paul Ivy Sterling | Attorney General of Hong Kong | |
151 | Sterling Byrd Lacy | 1882 | American politician |
152 | Chandler Sterling | ||
153 | James E. Sterling | 1838 | United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient |
154 | Sterling Bunnel | 1882 | American jeweller |
155 | Georgie Sterling | Australian actress | |
156 | Kenneth Sterling | ||
157 | Barry Sterling | 1943 | American politician |
158 | William T. Sterling | 1808 | American politician |
159 | Levi Sterling | 1804 | American politician |
160 | Barbara Sterling | ||
161 | George A. Sterling | 1836 | Canadian politician |
162 | Sterling Berry | 1854 | Irish bishop |
163 | Edward Boker Sterling | 1851 | American philatelist |
164 | André Sterling | 1924 | Belgian civil engineer |
165 | John T. Sterling | 1841 | Recipient of the Medal of Honor |
166 | Sterling Johnson, Jr. | 1934 | American judge |
167 | Ana María Yabar Sterling | 1948 | Spanish politician |
168 | Kazimierz Sterling | 1875 | |
169 | Thomas Sterling | 1921 | American crime writer (1921-2006) |
170 | Jennifer Sterling | ||
171 | Sterling Von Scarborough | 1965 | American singer and musician |
172 | Sterling Small | Montana politician | |
173 | Sterling Noel | 1903 | American crime writer (1903-1984) |
174 | William Sterling | ||
175 | Sterling Grant | 1987 | |
176 | Sterling Dow | 1903 | American art historian and archaeologist |
177 | Sterling Hambrook | 1935 | |
178 | Frederick A. Sterling | 1876 | |
179 | William E. Sterling | 1927 | |
180 | Sterling | ||
181 | Sterling Downey | ||
182 | Sterling Conaway | 1900 | |
183 | Winthrop Smith Sterling | 1858 |