Irby
Irby is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191837 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1896
- 1,130people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,104 boys have been named Irby in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 26 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Irby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 193 | |
| 1920s | 256 | |
| 1930s | 216 | |
| 1940s | 152 | |
| 1950s | 140 | |
| 1960s | 73 | |
| 1970s | 38 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Irby was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Irby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernalpeak 1916
- Dewardpeak 1924
- Haskelpeak 1924
- Gilmerpeak 1918
- Harroldpeak 1923
- Verlpeak 1918
- Natalepeak 1915
- Burdettepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.