Kirbie
Feminine diminutive variation of the English name Kirby or Kirsty.
Name Census estimates that about 203 living Americans carry the first name Kirbie. The name is used almost exclusively for girls. The average person named Kirbie today is around 35 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Kirbie births was 1983 (22 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Kirbie. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
For a British comparison, Name Census UK has a UK baby-name profile for Kirbie with official rankings and popularity over time.
People living today
203
~ 1 in 1,688,445 Americans
Peak year
1983
22 babies that year
Average age
35
years old
2015 SSA rank
#17,896
Tracked since 1983
Census
Kirbie in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 255 people with the first name Kirbie, which placed it at #32,783 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#32,783
National first-name rank
People counted
255
255 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
0.1
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
White
74.1% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Kirbie
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Kirbie is White at 74.1%. The next largest groups are Black (13.3%) and Two or More Races (5.9%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Kirbie described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Kirbie at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- White74.1% · 189
- Black or African American13.3% · 34
- Two or more races5.9% · 15
- Hispanic or Latino4.3% · 11
- American Indian and Alaska Native1.6% · 4
- Asian and Pacific Islander0.8% · 2
Popularity
Kirbie: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Kirbie from the 1980s through to the 2010s, spanning 4 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 1980s, with 101 total registrations. Usage has dropped considerably from its 1980s peak. The most recent decade brought in only a fraction of the registrations that the name once attracted.
Babies born per year
Decades
Kirbie by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Kirbie during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Geography
Where Kirbies live
Origin
Meaning and history of Kirbie
The name Kirbie is believed to have its origins in the Old English language, derived from the word "cyrice" which means church. It is thought to have first emerged in England during the Anglo-Saxon period, around the 5th to 11th centuries AD.
One of the earliest recorded usages of the name Kirbie can be found in the Domesday Book, a comprehensive survey of landholdings and resources commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086. The name appears in various spellings, such as "Cyricby" and "Kyrcby," referring to settlements or towns near churches.
In the Middle Ages, the name Kirbie was commonly used as a locational surname, indicating that an individual or family hailed from a place named after a church. As a given name, it gained popularity among the nobility and gentry, particularly in Northern England.
One notable historical figure bearing the name Kirbie was Kirbie Fenwick (1577-1652), an English landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of King Charles I. Another was Kirbie Bewick (1616-1677), a renowned engraver and naturalist from Northumberland, whose woodcut illustrations of birds and animals were highly acclaimed.
During the Renaissance period, the name Kirbie was also used by artists and intellectuals. Kirbie Ferrier (1590-1667) was a Scottish painter known for his portraits of aristocratic families, while Kirbie Lyttleton (1624-1679) was an English philosopher and writer who contributed to the development of scientific thought.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the name Kirbie continued to be used, though less commonly than in previous eras. Kirbie Coleridge (1772-1849) was an English writer and literary critic, known for his friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his influential works on Shakespearean criticism.
Despite its historical roots, the name Kirbie has fallen out of widespread use in modern times, though it may still be encountered as a unique or revived name choice in some regions or cultural communities.
People
Kirbie + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Kirbie as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with K
Other first names starting with K with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Kirbie: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Kirbie?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 203 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Kirbie going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 1,688,445 US residents.
Is Kirbie a common name?
We classify Kirbie as "Very Rare". It ranks above 74.4% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 212 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Kirbie most popular?
The single biggest year for Kirbie was 1983, when 22 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Kirbie is about 35 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Kirbie in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 255 people with the name Kirbie, or 0.08 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #32,783 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Kirbie in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Kirbie?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Kirbie leans strongly female. 240 people counted with this name were female (94.1%), compared with 15 male bearers (5.9%). The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Kirbie?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Kirbie is White at 74.1%. The next largest groups are Black (13.3%) and Two or More Races (5.9%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Kirbie most often in the Census?
White is the largest reported group for people named Kirbie in the 2020 Census, accounting for 74.1% (189 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Kirbie in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Kirbie a female name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Kirbie in the SSA data are female. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Kirbie still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Kirbie in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Kirbie can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How many people are called Kirbie?
For a quick modern estimate, our sister site HowManyOfMe.org answers that in one glance, with the living-bearer count front and centre.