Aster

Where Aster comes from

From aster (“a plant of the genus Aster”) and its etymon Latin astēr (“a star”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aster
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2022
    Peak, #2,463
    73 babies named Aster — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Latin.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.