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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Irby

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,104

peak year 1918

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1918
37 births
Best rank
#1,046
in 1896
First recorded
1896
#1,046 that year
Last recorded
1991
no later published record
Average birth year
1936
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
71 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191837#1,140Peak
  2. 192637#1,183
  3. 191633#1,145
  4. 192230#1,355
  5. 192830#1,340

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,046 in 1896 · peak births 37 in 1918

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

1,104 boys · 26 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Irby has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.