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Kirbi vs Kirstin

American parents have registered 8,778 Kirstins since 1880, against 191 Kirbis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kirbi against Kirstin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kirbi Kirstin

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

Kirstin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1942 to 2023. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Kirbi had 22 and Kirstin had 159.

Side by side

  Kirbi Kirstin
Total US births 1918,778
Most in one year 22413
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1908,500
Median age today 3635
Peak year 19831990
Best rank 3,555th girls564th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19831942
Girls / boys 191 / 08,778 / 0

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kirbi and Kirstin.