Name: Sterling
Gender: Male
Usage: Sterling is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Sterling are in general originating from Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Sterling is: Little star, Valuable.
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Numerology of the first name Sterling: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Sterling is ranked on the 2,744th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 134900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Sterling has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Sterling for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Sterling is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Sterling Brinkley, American businessman
- Sterling Harwood, American philosopher and lawyer
- Sterling Hayden, American actor and author
- Sterling Hitchcock, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Sterling Holloway, American actor
- Sterling Hyltin, New York City Ballet principal dancer
- Sterling Knight, American actor
- Sterling Marlin, NASCAR Driver, Daytona 500 Champion, Folk Hero
- Sterling Morrison, guitar player with The Velvet Underground
- Sterling Sharpe, former American football wide receiver
- Sterling Simms, singer on Def Jam
- Sterling Slaughter, American major league baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1964
- Sterling Van Wagenen, American film producer and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival
Fictional characters:
- Sterling Archer, character in the television series Archer
English: transferred use of the surname, which may represent a hypercorrected form of the nickname Starling (referring to the bird). As a given name, however, Sterling is likely to have been chosen because of its association with the vocabulary word occurring in such phrases as ‘sterling qualities’ and ‘sterling worth’. This word is derived from the Middle English word sterrling ‘little star’: some Norman coins had a little star on them.
Variant: Stirling (respelled as if derived from the Scottish placename, which is of uncertain derivation, possibly from Welsh ystre Velyn ‘dwelling of Melyn’).
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