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Kirby

“church” + “habitation”

Language context for this entry: English

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English (Southern England)

Origin: Not established
1 language context: English
Follow the evidence: 3 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Kirby

Kirby is a unisex given name documented in English. English Wiktionary records the meaning ““church” + “habitation””.

English Wiktionary account

Source-reported

Meaning: “church” + “habitation”

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

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: KirbyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Kirby is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Kirby’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 65 girls (rank 2645). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Kirby

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 36; applications; Rank #3,240
Peak year: 1957; 357 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Kirby in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	5	866	observed
1882	6	837	observed
1883	8	677	observed
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	14	498	observed
1886	10	605	observed
1887	7	752	observed
1888	6	917	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	12	566	observed
1891	7	766	observed
1892	10	688	observed
1893	9	705	observed
1894	8	787	observed
1895	8	795	observed
1896	10	722	observed
1897	13	584	observed
1898	9	744	observed
1899	7	857	observed
1900	13	699	observed
1901	8	779	observed
1902	8	862	observed
1903	5	1,130	observed
1904	7	966	observed
1905	8	919	observed
1906	5	1,253	observed
1907	12	778	observed
1908	9	946	observed
1909	13	804	observed
1910	13	859	observed
1911	18	759	observed
1912	25	892	observed
1913	30	897	observed
1914	38	884	observed
1915	59	785	observed
1916	55	840	observed
1917	59	833	observed
1918	52	918	observed
1919	54	908	observed
1920	60	887	observed
1921	58	920	observed
1922	62	871	observed
1923	61	873	observed
1924	71	797	observed
1925	48	984	observed
1926	77	726	observed
1927	53	951	observed
1928	59	862	observed
1929	71	752	observed
1930	66	797	observed
1931	51	901	observed
1932	64	793	observed
1933	59	799	observed
1934	74	708	observed
1935	68	741	observed
1936	82	637	observed
1937	97	584	observed
1938	74	710	observed
1939	96	587	observed
1940	102	585	observed
1941	120	541	observed
1942	136	523	observed
1943	139	534	observed
1944	110	585	observed
1945	106	586	observed
1946	191	460	observed
1947	209	466	observed
1948	199	474	observed
1949	197	469	observed
1950	226	441	observed
1951	247	430	observed
1952	265	429	observed
1953	288	415	observed
1954	326	396	observed
1955	271	450	observed
1956	344	411	observed
1957	357	411	observed
1958	342	425	observed
1959	343	430	observed
1960	345	433	observed
1961	291	474	observed
1962	277	478	observed
1963	253	506	observed
1964	230	513	observed
1965	212	527	observed
1966	188	557	observed
1967	192	537	observed
1968	190	547	observed
1969	173	592	observed
1970	148	672	observed
1971	290	476	observed
1972	266	480	observed
1973	151	646	observed
1974	146	674	observed
1975	145	684	observed
1976	118	763	observed
1977	129	751	observed
1978	89	914	observed
1979	107	838	observed
1980	104	871	observed
1981	111	833	observed
1982	78	1,023	observed
1983	147	706	observed
1984	142	730	observed
1985	127	788	observed
1986	130	796	observed
1987	117	861	observed
1988	186	687	observed
1989	196	701	observed
1990	167	785	observed
1991	177	771	observed
1992	194	742	observed
1993	173	804	observed
1994	136	948	observed
1995	129	978	observed
1996	131	969	observed
1997	115	1,096	observed
1998	100	1,224	observed
1999	86	1,374	observed
2000	73	1,609	observed
2001	82	1,481	observed
2002	64	1,792	observed
2003	54	2,077	observed
2004	60	1,989	observed
2005	50	2,325	observed
2006	53	2,348	observed
2007	64	2,117	observed
2008	49	2,542	observed
2009	47	2,623	observed
2010	50	2,467	observed
2011	51	2,437	observed
2012	48	2,551	observed
2013	44	2,668	observed
2014	40	2,885	observed
2015	55	2,355	observed
2016	44	2,726	observed
2017	45	2,715	observed
2018	51	2,507	observed
2019	43	2,851	observed
2020	52	2,467	observed
2021	39	3,074	observed
2022	44	2,873	observed
2023	47	2,737	observed
2024	52	2,559	observed
2025	36	3,240	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Kirby” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Edmund Kirby Smith
1824–1893
Confederate States Army general (1824-1893)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
born 1987
British actress
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Bliss Blanton
born 1990
American actress
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Morrow
1973–2020
Canadian actor (1973–2020)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Puckett
1960–2006
American baseball player (1960–2006)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Kirby with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms2

Wikidata Q16277992CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: KirbyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kirby.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates8

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
British Columbia — 100 Years of Popular Baby Names (first names used 5 or more times), 1926-2025
Government of British Columbia, Vital Statistics Agency · OGL-BC (Open Government License - British Columbia; version not stated on the page) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Kirby

Kirby is a unisex given name documented in English. English Wiktionary records the meaning ““church” + “habitation””.

English Wiktionary account

Source-reported

Meaning: “church” + “habitation”

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

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: KirbyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Kirby is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Kirby’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 65 girls (rank 2645). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Kirby

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 36; applications; Rank #3,240
Peak year: 1957; 357 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Kirby in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	5	866	observed
1882	6	837	observed
1883	8	677	observed
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	14	498	observed
1886	10	605	observed
1887	7	752	observed
1888	6	917	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	12	566	observed
1891	7	766	observed
1892	10	688	observed
1893	9	705	observed
1894	8	787	observed
1895	8	795	observed
1896	10	722	observed
1897	13	584	observed
1898	9	744	observed
1899	7	857	observed
1900	13	699	observed
1901	8	779	observed
1902	8	862	observed
1903	5	1,130	observed
1904	7	966	observed
1905	8	919	observed
1906	5	1,253	observed
1907	12	778	observed
1908	9	946	observed
1909	13	804	observed
1910	13	859	observed
1911	18	759	observed
1912	25	892	observed
1913	30	897	observed
1914	38	884	observed
1915	59	785	observed
1916	55	840	observed
1917	59	833	observed
1918	52	918	observed
1919	54	908	observed
1920	60	887	observed
1921	58	920	observed
1922	62	871	observed
1923	61	873	observed
1924	71	797	observed
1925	48	984	observed
1926	77	726	observed
1927	53	951	observed
1928	59	862	observed
1929	71	752	observed
1930	66	797	observed
1931	51	901	observed
1932	64	793	observed
1933	59	799	observed
1934	74	708	observed
1935	68	741	observed
1936	82	637	observed
1937	97	584	observed
1938	74	710	observed
1939	96	587	observed
1940	102	585	observed
1941	120	541	observed
1942	136	523	observed
1943	139	534	observed
1944	110	585	observed
1945	106	586	observed
1946	191	460	observed
1947	209	466	observed
1948	199	474	observed
1949	197	469	observed
1950	226	441	observed
1951	247	430	observed
1952	265	429	observed
1953	288	415	observed
1954	326	396	observed
1955	271	450	observed
1956	344	411	observed
1957	357	411	observed
1958	342	425	observed
1959	343	430	observed
1960	345	433	observed
1961	291	474	observed
1962	277	478	observed
1963	253	506	observed
1964	230	513	observed
1965	212	527	observed
1966	188	557	observed
1967	192	537	observed
1968	190	547	observed
1969	173	592	observed
1970	148	672	observed
1971	290	476	observed
1972	266	480	observed
1973	151	646	observed
1974	146	674	observed
1975	145	684	observed
1976	118	763	observed
1977	129	751	observed
1978	89	914	observed
1979	107	838	observed
1980	104	871	observed
1981	111	833	observed
1982	78	1,023	observed
1983	147	706	observed
1984	142	730	observed
1985	127	788	observed
1986	130	796	observed
1987	117	861	observed
1988	186	687	observed
1989	196	701	observed
1990	167	785	observed
1991	177	771	observed
1992	194	742	observed
1993	173	804	observed
1994	136	948	observed
1995	129	978	observed
1996	131	969	observed
1997	115	1,096	observed
1998	100	1,224	observed
1999	86	1,374	observed
2000	73	1,609	observed
2001	82	1,481	observed
2002	64	1,792	observed
2003	54	2,077	observed
2004	60	1,989	observed
2005	50	2,325	observed
2006	53	2,348	observed
2007	64	2,117	observed
2008	49	2,542	observed
2009	47	2,623	observed
2010	50	2,467	observed
2011	51	2,437	observed
2012	48	2,551	observed
2013	44	2,668	observed
2014	40	2,885	observed
2015	55	2,355	observed
2016	44	2,726	observed
2017	45	2,715	observed
2018	51	2,507	observed
2019	43	2,851	observed
2020	52	2,467	observed
2021	39	3,074	observed
2022	44	2,873	observed
2023	47	2,737	observed
2024	52	2,559	observed
2025	36	3,240	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Edmund Kirby Smith
1824–1893
Confederate States Army general (1824-1893)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
born 1987
British actress
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Bliss Blanton
born 1990
American actress
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Morrow
1973–2020
Canadian actor (1973–2020)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Kirby Puckett
1960–2006
American baseball player (1960–2006)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms2

Wikidata Q16277992CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: KirbyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kirby.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates8

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
British Columbia — 100 Years of Popular Baby Names (first names used 5 or more times), 1926-2025
Government of British Columbia, Vital Statistics Agency · OGL-BC (Open Government License - British Columbia; version not stated on the page) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Kirby

English Wiktionary account

Where Kirby is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Edmund Kirby Smith

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Kirby Bliss Blanton

Kirby Morrow

Kirby Puckett

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Kirby

English Wiktionary account

Where Kirby is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Edmund Kirby Smith

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Kirby Bliss Blanton

Kirby Morrow

Kirby Puckett

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page