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Kirk

Pronounced /kɜɹk/

Rank in 2024
#2,555
Born in 2024
52
Peak year
1962 · #138
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 52 boys were named Kirk, about 1 in every 32,987.
  • It peaked in 1962 with 2,558 babies, ranked #138.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 68,020 boys have been named Kirk since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.8
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 655 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 1,767 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 30,104 babies, 0.80 per 1,000. Gen X: 22,407 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,590 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,482 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 922 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From kirk, from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of Church. The sense meaning fellatio as well as the verb are derived from the shooting of Charlie Kirk, as he was shot in the neck (“fellatio”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/kɜɹk/

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