Baby Names Meaning Star — with Origins

Star names split into two families depending on whether the culture is naming after the sky in general or a specific star. Sanskrit leans towards the specific: Dhruv is named for the pole star and doubles as a word for constancy, since the pole star alone never moves in the night sky, while Anuradha and Ashwini are both named directly after nakshatras, the 27 lunar mansions used in Vedic astrology to fix a birth date and, often, a birth letter.

Latin and its descendants take the general route through stella, star — Danica (Slavic for 'morning star') and the Irish/Latin blend Marian and Maura both mean 'star of the sea', an old title for the Virgin Mary that turned into a first name in its own right across Catholic Europe. Filipino naming gives Bituin, the Tagalog word for star, used as a given name rather than borrowed from another language, and Arabic contributes Najma and the more poetic Thurayya, the traditional Arabic name for the Pleiades star cluster.

Below are the names in our catalogue whose meaning includes star, starlight or the sky, across every origin, most common first.