Starsky
Starsky & Hutch is an American action television series, which consisted of a 72-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and starred Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the title roles, Starsky and Hutch. It was broadcast from April 1975 to August 1979 on the ABC network.
Meaning & Origin of Starsky
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Starsky & Hutch is an American action television series, which consisted of a 72-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and starred Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the title roles, Starsky and Hutch. It was broadcast from April 1975 to August 1979 on the ABC network.
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The Story of Starsky
Starsky first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1975, with 11 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1976: 45 births, good for #1,320 nationwide. About 85% of every Starsky on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Starsky last appeared in the published SSA data in 2000, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 134 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Starsky
Starsky is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1975 and has accumulated 134 births in the dataset. Starsky's peak popularity came in 1976 when it ranked #1,320. Use the chart and map above to compare Starsky's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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