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Kirt

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Kirt is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 584th, in 1962.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1962179 births
Best rank
#584in 1962
Since 1919
3,615people given the name
Babies named Kirt, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,615 boys have been named Kirt in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 179 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 179 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 38%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Kirt
1910s6
1930s20
1940s136
1950s675
1960s1,377
1970s774
1980s398
1990s173
2000s56

In 1962, its biggest year

Kirt was the 584th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.

Names that rose and fell with Kirt

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.