Starling (name)

Starling is a given name and a surname. According to one source, the surname arose in Old English as a nickname related to the bird, starling, but the author speculates "it is hard to see why".^[1] Another source puts the surname into a list of "surnames derived from birds".^[2]

Notable people with the name

Given name

Starling Marte (born 1988), professional athlete
Starling Thomas V (born 2000), American football player

Surname

Alan Starling (born 1951), English footballer
Avril Starling (born 1953), English cricketer
Boris Starling (born 1969), English writer
Bubba Starling (born 1992), American baseball player
Ernest Starling (1866-1927), English physiologist
Geoff Starling (born 1952), Australian rugby league player
Hannah Starling (born 1995), British diver
John Henry Starling (1883–1966), Australian public servant
Josh Starling (born 1990), Australian Rugby League player
Kristy Starling (contemporary), a Contemporary Christian Music singer
Paul Starling (born 1948), Australian karateka
Ronnie Starling (1909–1991), English footballer
Simon Starling (born 1967), English artist

Fictional characters

Clarice Starling, a main character in the novels and films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
Juliet, Cordelia, and Rosalind Starling, from Suda 51's hack-and-slash zombie game Lollipop Chainsaw
Robyn Starling, one of the main characters from the 1993 animated film Tom and Jerry: The Movie

References

^ Cottle, Basil (1978) [1967]. The Penguin dictionary of surnames (Reprint ed.). New York: Penguin Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-14-051032-4 – via Internet Archive.
^ Lower, Mark Antony (1849). English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humorous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). London: John Russell Smith. p. 178 – via Google Books.

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[1] Cottle, Basil (1978) [1967]. The Penguin dictionary of surnames (Reprint ed.). New York: Penguin Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-14-051032-4 – via Internet Archive.

[2] Lower, Mark Antony (1849). English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humorous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). London: John Russell Smith. p. 178 – via Google Books.

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Starling (name)

Notable people with the name

Fictional characters

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