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Kirby

Pronounced /ˈkɝbi/

Rank in 2024
#2,556
Born in 2024
52
Peak year
1957 · #411
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:70 in 2024 (#2,537)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 52 boys were named Kirby, about 1 in every 32,987.
  • It peaked in 1957 with 358 babies, ranked #411.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1881.
  • 14,497 boys 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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    Silent
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    Boomers
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    Millennials
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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 968 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 1,574 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,201 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,649 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,341 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,046 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 556 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.