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Kabir

#999 in 2025Boys' name

Great, magnificent

Kabir has been given to 3,601 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #999 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 284 recorded.

Babies named Kabir, 2025

1 in 14,600

Kabir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kabir: meaning, origin, and history

Great, magnificent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kabir means

Kabir means “great, magnificent”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,601 boys were recorded with the name Kabir between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 284 in 2021; its best national rank was #839 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #863 in 2020 to #999 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,154 in 2015 to #999 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kabir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,600
227 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,520
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#999
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,124 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kabir 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,124 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kabir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kabirs were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,601
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (1,464).

Is Kabir 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
−58
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−136
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+155
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.9%
Peak was 2021 (284)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#839
2021

Spellings of Kabir

Kabir is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 23.8% against Kabir's 1.2%.

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.

Where Kabir is used

Across 2016–2025, Kabir was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 6,444 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

154 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,852
  2. 2Washington1 in 2,564
  3. 3California1 in 3,448
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  5. 5Virginia1 in 4,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 4,762
  7. 7New York1 in 5,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Kabir around the world

Where Kabir 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #529
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #3,851
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #193
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kabir

People whose public names include Kabir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kabir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#999
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 136
Best rank ever
#839
2021
Peak year
2021
284 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,601
Count in 2025
227

Names similar to Kabir

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

SabirJabirAbirKabeerKabelKableRanbirSaabirKabeKabielKabrenZabirKabenAabirKhabirKabronRajbirTeghbirTegbirAgambirKabrynMahbirManbirKabriel

Names with a curve like Kabir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kabir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OsirisBoazLevGatlinAlistairKhaiKaiserShepardKilianKaceNovaAhmir

Sibling names for Kabir

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

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