Kirby
Kirby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 398th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1957358 births
- Best rank
- #398in 1954
- Since 1881
- 18,395people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,497 boys have been named Kirby in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 358 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kirby is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are girls (3,898), most of them born around 1984.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kirby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 56 | |
| 1890s | 93 | |
| 1900s | 88 | |
| 1910s | 403 | |
| 1920s | 620 | |
| 1930s | 731 | |
| 1940s | 1,509 | |
| 1950s | 3,009 | |
| 1960s | 2,352 | |
| 1970s | 1,589 | |
| 1980s | 1,338 | |
| 1990s | 1,408 | |
| 2000s | 596 | |
| 2010s | 471 | |
| 2020s | 234 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Kirby was the 409th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Kirby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaypeak 1960
- Curtispeak 1962
- Nealpeak 1959
- Karlpeak 1960
- Peterpeak 1957
- Randlepeak 1954
- Phillippeak 1960
- Stuartpeak 1960
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.