Birdie
Birdie was given to 422 girls in 2025, #670 among girls’ names; 14,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,350 Americans named Birdie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Birdie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Birdie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Birdie is “a female given name from English.” Its etymology gives the sense “little bird” (birdie).
From birdie (“little bird”). Also used as a diminutive of Bertha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Birdie?
#670 among girls’ names, 2025
Birdie rose from #2,745 in 2015 to #670 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.26 per 1,000.
422 babies in 2025, the peak
Birdie peaked in 2025, when 422 girls were given it, #670 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 378 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 422 | #670 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 378 | #744 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 411 | #700 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 352 | #801 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 307 | #884 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 255 | #1,001 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 222 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,322 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,020 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,346 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (126)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,745 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,726 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,011 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,578 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,373 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,417 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,976 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,188 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,788 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,808 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,772 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,948 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,009 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,946 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,679 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,219 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,140 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,160 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,053 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,211 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,327 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,017 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,441 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 78 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 80 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,006 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 77 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 96 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 91 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 101 | #753 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 108 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 115 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 106 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 116 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 111 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 112 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 139 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 137 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 134 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 160 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 151 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 173 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 194 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1928 | 157 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 193 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1926 | 206 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 206 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1924 | 227 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 230 | #450 | 0.19 |
| 1922 | 261 | #407 | 0.22 |
| 1921 | 256 | #424 | 0.21 |
| 1920 | 228 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1919 | 235 | #425 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | 264 | #403 | 0.23 |
| 1917 | 235 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1916 | 275 | #377 | 0.26 |
| 1915 | 256 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1914 | 211 | #363 | 0.28 |
| 1913 | 214 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1912 | 185 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1911 | 121 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 187 | #283 | 0.47 |
| 1909 | 159 | #285 | 0.46 |
| 1908 | 155 | #281 | 0.46 |
| 1907 | 157 | #279 | 0.49 |
| 1906 | 150 | #271 | 0.51 |
| 1905 | 148 | #271 | 0.51 |
| 1904 | 151 | #257 | 0.55 |
| 1903 | 138 | #261 | 0.53 |
| 1902 | 173 | #229 | 0.66 |
| 1901 | 170 | #218 | 0.71 |
| 1900 | 204 | #219 | 0.68 |
| 1899 | 163 | #214 | 0.70 |
| 1898 | 178 | #216 | 0.69 |
| 1897 | 151 | #224 | 0.64 |
| 1896 | 162 | #218 | 0.68 |
| 1895 | 184 | #199 | 0.79 |
| 1894 | 169 | #204 | 0.76 |
| 1893 | 149 | #208 | 0.70 |
| 1892 | 153 | #204 | 0.72 |
| 1891 | 138 | #195 | 0.74 |
| 1890 | 168 | #179 | 0.88 |
| 1889 | 166 | #177 | 0.93 |
| 1888 | 181 | #161 | 1.0 |
| 1887 | 133 | #175 | 0.91 |
| 1886 | 123 | #183 | 0.85 |
| 1885 | 131 | #160 | 1.0 |
| 1884 | 128 | #156 | 1.0 |
| 1883 | 93 | #171 | 0.83 |
| 1882 | 113 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1881 | 84 | #159 | 0.91 |
| 1880 | 85 | #155 | 0.93 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Birdie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Birdie has been given almost only to girls: 106 boys in 126 years of records.
Girls and boys named Birdie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Birdie, and how old are they?
4,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 14,814 Americans ever recorded as Birdie. The median Birdie alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,577 people named Birdie (2,533 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,916 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 591 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 627 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 119 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,820 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Birdie born?
The states with the most babies named Birdie are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 66 | #488 | 2.0× |
| California | 28 | #976 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 24 | #337 | 2.7× |
| Florida | 21 | #774 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #539 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 20 | #232 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 18 | #586 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 15 | #393 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #318 | 1.8× |
| New York | 13 | #1,096 | 0.1× |
Where Birdie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Birdie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Birdie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 16,952 babies since 1880, Birdie is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 422 of their 476 babies (89%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Birdie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Birdie and names like it
- Compare Birdie and ByrdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBirdie peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Birdie since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Birdie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Birdie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Birdie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.