Bird
Bird was last recorded in 1929, when 7 babies were given it; 230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bird by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bird?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,369, in 1926; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1880, the peak
Bird peaked in 1880, when 17 babies were given it (10 girls, #550 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,267 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,822 | |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,369 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,780 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,863 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,902 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,237 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,593 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #3,961 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,957 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,300 | |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,985 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,971 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,384 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,512 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,095 | 5 | #1,052 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,298 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,110 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,229 | 6 | #898 |
| 1889 | under 5 | 5 | #985 | |
| 1888 | 11 | #799 | 5 | #1,051 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,165 | 7 | #757 |
| 1886 | 8 | #843 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,064 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 7 | #779 | |
| 1883 | 6 | #832 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 10 | #599 | 7 | #766 |
| 1881 | 6 | #749 | 6 | #795 |
| 1880 | 10 | #550 | 7 | #754 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bird a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 230 Americans recorded as Bird, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bird: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bird, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Bird was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 323 people named Bird (162 women and girls, 161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3 born in the U.S. The Census count is 107.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Bird rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
More about Bird and names like it
- The most given names of the 1880sBird peaked in 1880.
- The top names of 1880The year the most babies were named Bird.
- Names starting with BMost given first.