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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kirk

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#2,551

up +33 places

2025 births

52

unchanged births

All-time births

68,067

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1962
2,560 births
Best rank
#138
in 1962
First recorded
1880
#875 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1968
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
136 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19622,560#138Peak
  2. 19612,513#140
  3. 19632,476#139
  4. 19602,447#142
  5. 19592,407#145

Rank over time

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

Best rank #138 in 1962 · peak births 2,560 in 1962

Boys and girls

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

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

68,067 boys · 197 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 Kirk has ranked, decade by decade

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