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Kirt

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kirt has been given to 3,615 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1962, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Kirt, 2008

1 in 655,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirt: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirt means

Kirt is a given name.

The naming story behind Kirt

Wikidata records Kirt as a given name. The entity identifier is Q114806609, 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, 3,615 boys were recorded with the name Kirt between 1919 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 179 in 1962; its best national rank was #584 in 1962.

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 Kirt?

Kirt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirt 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 2008 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 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirt was born before 1967 — so the typical Kirt is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,453
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (1,377).

Is Kirt 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (179)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#584
1962

Spellings of Kirt

Kirt is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 15.2% against Kirt's 0.55%.

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 Kirt is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirt was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 75,793 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 11,111
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 20,000
  4. 4Idaho1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

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

Kirt around the world

Where Kirt 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.

  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Kirt 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
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Best rank ever
#584
1962
Peak year
1962
179 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
3,615
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirt

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

KiranKirbyKirinKirkKiroKirillKirenKireeKirilKireKirtanKironKirklandKirubelWirtBirtKirynKiramKirkeKirtisKiraKirstenKiravKirian

Names with a curve like Kirt

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

ChipDerwinTimmieRobbJeffereyTimmothyRitchieLisaKraigAndraKennthScot

Sibling names for Kirt

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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