Kabir
Kabir was given to 227 boys in 2025, #999 among boys’ names; 3,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,560 Americans named Kabir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kabir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kabir?
#999 among boys’ names, 2025
Kabir rose from #1,154 in 2015 to #999 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.13 per 1,000.
284 babies in 2021, the peak
Kabir peaked in 2021, when 284 boys were given it, #839 among boys’ names. The 227 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 227 | #999 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 245 | #941 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 214 | #1,021 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 232 | #974 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 284 | #839 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 262 | #863 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 248 | #885 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,145 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 179 | #1,099 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,154 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,372 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,887 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 91 | #1,683 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,023 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,670 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,461 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,394 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,698 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,614 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,399 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,936 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,949 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,078 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,300 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,852 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,333 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,272 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kabir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kabir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kabir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kabir, and how old are they?
3,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,601 Americans ever recorded as Kabir. The median Kabir alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,561 people named Kabir (6 women and girls, 2,555 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 743 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Kabir born?
The states with the most babies named Kabir are California, New York and New Jersey, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 54 | #562 | 1.9× |
| New York | 26 | #594 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #401 | 3.1× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,118 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 15 | #618 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 13 | #547 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,302 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 8 | #837 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,165 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #745 | 1.1× |
Where Kabir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kabir is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 3.1 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 boys’ 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 Kabir 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,789 babies since 1880, Kabir is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 227 of their 242 babies (94%), 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 Kabir
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 Kabir and names like it
- Compare Kabir and KabeerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKabir peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kabir since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kabir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kabir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.