Kirbi vs Kirby
American parents have registered 18,495 Kirbys since 1880, against 191 Kirbis. Kirby is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kirbi Kirby
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Kirby has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1987, when Kirbi had 16 and Kirby had 269.
Side by side
| Kirbi | Kirby | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 191 | 18,495 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 509 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 101 |
| Estimated living today | 190 | 14,000 |
| Median age today | 36 | 42 |
| Peak year | 1983 | 1957 |
| Best rank | 3,555th girls | 411th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 3,240th |
| First recorded | 1983 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 191 / 0 | 3,963 / 14,532 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kirbys alive today are over 42; half the Kirbis are over 36. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kirbi and Kirby.