Birk

Boys' name

Fortification, city

Birk has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Birk, 2021

1 in 565,000

Birk over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Birk: meaning, origin, and history

Fortification, city

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Birk means

Birk means “fortification, city”, associated with burg.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Anglo-Norman surname, from Old English burh, burg (“fortification, city”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Birk (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Birk is used in English.

Birk comes through Old English burh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Birk between 2008 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2018; its best national rank was #8,928 in 2018.

How common is Birk?

Birk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 565,000; 6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 292,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Birk sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Birks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Birk was born before 2018 — so the typical Birk is around 7 today.

Median birth year: 2018; About 7 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 26; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Birk rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (8)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,928; 2018

Spellings of Birk

Birk is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 70.8% against Birk's <0.01%.

Mark70.8%1,362,176
Bill8.3%160,474
Rick4.3%81,829
Kirk3.5%68,067
Ira2.9%55,410
Nick2.6%50,457
Bert1.7%33,585
Dick1.5%29,273

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Birk around the world

Where Birk ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–2025
#18
in 2025
South Australia
1985–1985
#449
in 1985

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Birk by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,928; 2018
Peak year: 2018; 8 that year
First recorded: 2008
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 26
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Birk

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Bird Biruk Birger Birl Birch Biren Biron Birt Birdell Birney Biran Birdie Birche Birchel Birchard Dirk Kirk

Sibling names for Birk

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Emberly Landry Avah

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Levon Merrick Mordechai Zaid Linus Joziah

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