Kirtis
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kirtis has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1984, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Kirtis, 1997
1 in 725,000
Kirtis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kirtis?
Kirtis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,624,676 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 377,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,488 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kirtis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirtis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kirtiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirtis was born before 1984 — so the typical Kirtis is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 37.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 122
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (46).
Is Kirtis 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (10)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kirtis
Kirtis is not the most common spelling — Curtis is, with 85.7% against Kirtis's 0.04%.
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.
Kirtis around the world
Where Kirtis 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 & Wales1996–2003#3,467in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kirtis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kirtis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kirtis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.