Kirti

Girls' name

Fame, renown, glory

Kirti has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2003, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Kirti, 2012

1 in 523,000

Kirti over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirti: meaning, origin, and history

Fame, renown, glory

Sanskrit

What Kirti means

Kirti means “fame, renown, glory”, associated with kīrti.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit कीर्ति (kīrti, “fame, renown, glory”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kirti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Kirti comes through Sanskrit कीर्ति.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 girls were recorded with the name Kirti between 1986 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2003; its best national rank was #8,261 in 2003.

How common is Kirti?

Kirti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 523,000; 7 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 252,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 362,179 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kirti sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirtis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirti was born before 2003 — so the typical Kirti is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 69.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 89.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 69; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 69.6% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Kirti 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 2003 (13)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,261; 2003

Spellings of Kirti

Kirti is not the most common spelling — Kristi is, with 21.5% against Kirti's 0.02%.

Kristi21.5%76,484
Kari16.8%59,696
Kira11.5%40,829
Kerri10.4%37,021
Keri9.0%32,061
Kori4.2%14,822
Kitty3.3%11,657
Karli3.1%10,960

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 Kirti is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Kirti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kirti around the world

Where Kirti 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
1997–2012
#5,876
in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Kirti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,261; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 13 that year
First recorded: 1986
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 69
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kirti

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

Kirpa Kirat Kiryn Kirie Kirsi Kiren Kirana Kirrah Kiria Kirbi Kirsha Kirah Kiree Kiriana Kirklyn Kirin Kirk Kiralyn Kirsy Kirya Kirbie Kiran Kirsta Kiriaki

Sibling names for Kirti

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

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Sydnee Iyana

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Estevan Dallin Zakary Domenic Octavio Alexandro

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