Biruk
#9,837 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Biruk has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #9,837 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Biruk, 2025
1 in 474,000
Biruk over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Biruk?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,837
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Biruk sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Biruk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Biruks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Biruk was born before 2016 — so the typical Biruk is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 184
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Biruk 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
- −1,445
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,675
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,120
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.8%
- Peak was 2017 (16)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.0% average annual change
Spellings of Biruk
Biruk is not the most common spelling — Kirk is, with 84.9% against Biruk's 0.23%.
Biruk around the world
Where Biruk 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.
- England & Wales2018–2018#3,959in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Biruk by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Biruk
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Biruk
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.