Kirby
2025 SSA
About Kirby
Attractive British place-name with a sense of humor. Fun fact: John Wayne played five characters with the first or second name of Kirby.
Pronounced KER-bee.
As of October 2026, Kirby ranked #3278 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #398 in 1954.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,912 | 40 | 20.8 |
| 2015 | #2,377 | 55 | 28.7 |
| 2016 | #2,746 | 44 | 23.2 |
| 2017 | #2,740 | 45 | 24.3 |
| 2018 | #2,531 | 51 | 28.1 |
| 2019 | #2,881 | 43 | 24 |
| 2020 | #2,488 | 52 | 30.1 |
| 2021 | #3,097 | 39 | 22.3 |
| 2022 | #2,893 | 44 | 25.2 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 47 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | #2,578 | 52 | 30.2 |
| 2025 | #3,278 | 36 | 21.1 |
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Kirby on lists
Famous Kirbys
- (Anthony) Kirby Puckett
American baseball player
- Kirby Bryan Dick
documentary filmmaker
- Kirby Wright
American novelist
- Kirby Chambliss
American stunt pilot
- Stanton "Kirby" Doyle
American poet
- Kirby Grant
American actor
- Kirby Law
Canadian ice hockey player
- Kirby Mack
American pro wrestler
- Kirby Robert Morrow
Canadian actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
- (Edmund) Kirby Smith
U.S. Confederate Civil War general
- Kirby Keyes Wilson
American football coach
- Kirby Dach
Canadian ice hockey player
- Kirby Paul Smart
American football coach
Kirby in pop culture
- Kirby
Nintendo video game character
- Kirby Keager
main character in film "St. Elmo's Fire"
- Kirby York
main character on TV's "Fort Apache"
- Kirby Morris
character on TV's "The Suite Life on Deck"
- Kirby Allbee
character in "The Victim" (1947) by Saul Bellow
- Kirby Scroggins
character on TV's "The Torkelsons"
- "Kirby Buckets
" TV series and its main character
- Kirby O'Neil
father of April O'Neil in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series
- Kirby
character in animated film "The Brave Little Toaster"
- Kirby
alien child in animated film "Chicken Little"
- Kirby
character on "The Adventure Zone: Amnesty"