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Kirkland

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kirkland has been given to 2,178 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1997, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Kirkland, 2024

1 in 334,000

Kirkland over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirkland: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirkland means

Kirkland is a given name.

The naming story behind Kirkland

Wikidata records Kirkland as a given name. The entity identifier is Q112066573, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,160 boys were recorded with the name Kirkland between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,044 in 1997.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Kirkland between 1996 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1996; its best national rank was #11,199 in 1996.

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 Kirkland?

Kirkland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirkland 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirkland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirklands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirkland was born before 1989 — so the typical Kirkland is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,005
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1990s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (667).

Is Kirkland 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (122)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,044
1997

Where Kirkland is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirkland was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 267,786 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

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. Kirkland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kirkland around the world

Where Kirkland 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.

  • Canada
    1994–2005
    #2,303
    in 2005

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kirkland

People whose public names include Kirkland, 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.

Kirkland 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
#1,044
1997
Peak year
1997
122 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,160
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,199
1996
Peak year
1996
7 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirkland

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

CortlandCopelandHollandLeelandOaklandCourtlandKiranWaylandRowlandKirtlandZealandKirubelArlandNolandKirillHarlandBertrandRaylandLeilandNeylandScotlandRocklandFerdinandRolland

Names with a curve like Kirkland

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

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Sibling names for Kirkland

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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