Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kirk” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kirk” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kirk” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kirk” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kirk” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kirk” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kirk” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kirk” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 -100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 -100%
1912 18 0.000018217 18 -100%
1913 23 0.000020227 23 -100%
1914 30 0.000021181 30 -100%
1915 41 0.000022375 41 -100%
1916 38 0.000019644 38 -100%
1917 39 0.000019434 39 -100%
1918 32 0.000014739 32 -100%
1919 39 0.000018481 39 -100%
1920 36 0.000015911 36 -100%
1921 27 0.000011566 27 -100%
1922 41 0.000017911 41 -100%
1923 44 0.00001911 44 -100%
1924 50 0.000020994 50 -100%
1925 42 0.000018 42 -100%
1926 36 0.00001568 36 -100%
1927 32 0.000013797 32 -100%
1928 37 0.000016365 37 -100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 -100%
1930 45 0.00002024 45 -100%
1931 44 0.000020909 44 -100%
1932 34 0.000016104 34 -100%
1933 30 0.000015004 30 -100%
1934 60 0.00002889 60 -100%
1935 61 0.000029188 61 -100%
1936 53 0.00002551 53 -100%
1937 72 0.000033792 72 -100%
1938 80 0.000036157 80 -100%
1939 105 0.000047653 105 -100%
1940 131 0.00005689 131 -100%
1941 166 0.000068133 166 -100%
1942 169 0.000061864 169 -100%
1943 209 0.000074046 209 -100%
1944 220 0.000081782 220 -100%
1945 209 0.000078781 209 -100%
1946 248 0.000077614 248 -100%
1947 334 0.000092718 334 -100%
1948 338 0.0000979 338 -100%
1949 731 0.00020977 731 -100%
1950 1030 0.000294004 1030 -100%
1951 999 0.000271192 999 -100%
1952 1130 0.000297525 8 1122 -99%
1953 1233 0.000319957 1233 -100%
1954 1375 0.000345416 1375 -100%
1955 1634 0.000406966 6 1628 -99%
1956 1907 0.000462523 1907 -100%
1957 2191 0.000521401 8 2183 -99%
1958 2346 0.000567502 7 2339 -99%
1959 2407 0.000578885 2407 -100%
1960 2460 0.000592227 12 2448 -99%
1961 2517 0.000607633 5 2512 -100%
1962 2558 0.000633894 2558 -100%
1963 2488 0.000628569 8 2480 -99%
1964 2241 0.000576447 9 2232 -99%
1965 2063 0.000569033 6 2057 -99%
1966 1846 0.000531123 7 1839 -99%
1967 2003 0.000590003 8 1995 -99%
1968 2018 0.000597322 7 2011 -99%
1969 2083 0.000599369 9 2074 -99%
1970 1933 0.000535975 13 1920 -99%
1971 1754 0.000511019 10 1744 -99%
1972 1350 0.000429527 1350 -100%
1973 1211 0.000401407 1211 -100%
1974 1132 0.000372369 10 1122 -98%
1975 1001 0.000331523 1001 -100%
1976 890 0.000293313 890 -100%
1977 886 0.000278924 5 881 -99%
1978 724 0.000228113 8 716 -98%
1979 807 0.000242561 807 -100%
1980 797 0.000231383 8 789 -98%
1981 717 0.000207263 717 -100%
1982 670 0.000190994 9 661 -97%
1983 641 0.000185082 7 634 -98%
1984 691 0.000198065 691 -100%
1985 681 0.000190804 681 -100%
1986 649 0.000182453 7 642 -98%
1987 731 0.000202739 7 724 -98%
1988 810 0.000219213 7 803 -98%
1989 845 0.000219798 845 -100%
1990 699 0.000176851 699 -100%
1991 562 0.000144278 562 -100%
1992 515 0.00013407 515 -100%
1993 424 0.000112459 6 418 -97%
1994 379 0.000101946 379 -100%
1995 316 0.000086288 316 -100%
1996 303 0.000083078 303 -100%
1997 317 0.00008743 317 -100%
1998 231 0.000062802 231 -100%
1999 221 0.000059829 221 -100%
2000 189 0.000050001 189 -100%
2001 178 0.00004755 178 -100%
2002 161 0.000043068 161 -100%
2003 158 0.000041554 158 -100%
2004 140 0.00003664 140 -100%
2005 141 0.000036672 141 -100%
2006 121 0.000030585 121 -100%
2007 124 0.000031018 124 -100%
2008 95 0.000024169 95 -100%
2009 111 0.000029056 111 -100%
2010 102 0.000027599 102 -100%
2011 96 0.000026245 96 -100%
2012 97 0.000026522 97 -100%
2013 112 0.000030721 112 -100%
2014 104 0.00002806 104 -100%
2015 92 0.000024859 92 -100%
2016 80 0.000021806 80 -100%
2017 95 0.000026565 95 -100%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 -100%
2019 76 0.000021896 76 -100%
2020 67 0.000020056 67 -100%
2021 67 0.000019776 67 -100%
2022 55 0.000016257 55 -100%
2023 52 0.000015704 52 -100%
2024 52 0.000015623 52 -100%

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