Gender-neutral · #2645 in 2025

Kirby

Kirby: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2645
Born 2025
65
Peak year
1984

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Kirby per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1984. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Kirby has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 18% of its 1984 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 52% of children named Kirby were recorded as girls and 48% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.