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Kirby

Pronounced /ˈkɝbi/

Rank in 2024
#2,537
Born in 2024
70
Peak year
1984 · #527
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:52 in 2024 (#2,556)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 70 girls were named Kirby, about 1 in every 23,046.
  • It peaked in 1984 with 367 babies, ranked #527.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1917.
  • 3,898 girls have been named Kirby since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Kirby per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 19 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 65 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 233 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 138 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,381 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 544 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 518 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Originally Kirkby, from kirk (“church”) +‎ -by (“habitation”), "village with a church".

  • (countable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈkɝbi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Kirby, CC BY-SA 4.0.