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The name Kirby is of English origin, and means village of the church. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kirby has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kirby**
Use of the Name Kirby for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
12,763	7,943	2,365	260	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kirby has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kirby first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. Kirby last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kirby**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	949	5
1882	898	6
1883	701	8
1884
1885	512	14
1886	624	10
1887	792	7
1888	992	6
1889
1890	582	12
1891	809	7
1892	720	10
1893	737	9
1894	824	8
1895	837	8
1896	756	10
1897	598	13
1898	782	9
1899	908	7
1900	718	13
1901	817	8
1902	893	8
1903
1904
1905	967	8
1906
1907	795	12
1908	989	9
1909	821	13
1910	904	13
1911	780	18
1912	905	25
1913	909	30
1914	903	37
1915	799	58
1916	850	55
1917	842	58
1918	925	52
1919	912	54
1920	892	60
1921	933	57
1922	880	62
1923	863	62
1924	804	71
1925	977	49
1926	720	78
1927	965	52
1928	878	58
1929	760	71
1930	794	66
1931	917	50
1932	799	64
1933	805	59
1934	702	75
1935	760	66
1936	642	82
1937	585	98
1938	716	73
1939	591	96
1940	583	103
1941	546	118
1942	524	137
1943	533	139
1944	583	110
1945	593	104
1946	466	188
1947	467	209
1948	475	197
1949	471	196
1950	443	225
1951	430	247
1952	430	267
1953	416	286
1954	398	325
1955	449	270
1956	410	343
1957	412	356
1958	425	341
1959	431	342
1960	432	345
1961	474	289
1962	478	277
1963	505	254
1964	518	228
1965	522	215
1966	561	185
1967	542	190
1968	560	183
1969	595	173
1970	674	148
1971	478	288
1972	481	266
1973	648	151
1974	675	145
1975	683	146
1976	760	119
1977	752	129
1978	929	87
1979	835	108
1980	871	104
1981	834	111
1982
1983	709	146	719	232
1984	728	142	525	367
1985	789	127	759	225
1986	795	130	981	161
1987	867	116
1988	684	187
1989	703	196
1990	786	167
1991	773	176
1992	742	194
1993	803	173
1994	946	136
1995	979	129
1996	970	131
Totals:		12,763		985

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kirby as a boy's name about 92% of the time and less frequently (about 7% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Kirby appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 110 times during the last 125 years.

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