Kirby

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kirby: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kirby: Recorded since 1990, it reached #345 in 1996, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
35years from first to last
#345highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#345
1997	#585
1998	#955
1999	#1261
2000	#2167
2001	#2226
2002	#3409
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#5785
2013	#5742
2018	#5666
2019	#5591

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 1997: #358 among girls in Northern Ireland, #585 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1990–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #345 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2019
Highest recorded position: #345 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2019).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kirby appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 238 births with the name.

Kirby across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kirby's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#1591 (1996)	#5119 (2024)	10 of 29	41 (1996–2024)	7 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#345 (1996)	#345 (1996)	#5591 (2019)	19 of 24	238 (1996–2019)	100 (1996)

Kirby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kirby in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	181	4 of 10	45
2000sbusiest	41	10 of 10	4
2010s	16	5 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 4 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births fell by 56, from 100 to 44.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kirby appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #345 in England and Wales in 1996.

Kirby's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#585	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#345	100	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1990 and 2024, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #345, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 100 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kiran · #245, 31y
Kirat · #1491, 17y
Kiri · #77, 30y
Kiril · #2266, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Adas · #346, 17y
Aris · #346, 26y
Carlie · #344, 24y
Cathryn · #344, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Hashim · #345, 29y
Aris · #346, 26y
Bowen · #346, 27y
Carlie · #344, 24y

Kirby was ranked #345 in England and Wales · Girls in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kirby and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kirby without appearing here.

Kirby moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3865 and #3865 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #4805.
Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3416 and #2721 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Kirby

Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #2150.
Ronny Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1591 and #2020 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #919.
Cheryl Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1628.
Ezra Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4688 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #3185.

Moved the opposite way to Kirby

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Kirby

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kirby went from #1591 to #5119 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #345 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kirby

Kirby at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kirby across 2 official records

Kirby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kirby appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Kirby and the names beside it

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Kirby at a glance

Kirby across 2 official records

Kirby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kirby appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kirby

Kirby and the names beside it

Kirby moved ahead of

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