Kirkland
Kirkland was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 2,178 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Kirkland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirkland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirkland?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,061, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
122 babies in 1997, the peak
Kirkland peaked in 1997, when 122 boys were given it, #1,044 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,061 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,294 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,334 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,894 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,825 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,336 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,535 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,342 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,550 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,160 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #8,495 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,458 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,846 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,275 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,356 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,707 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,607 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,117 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,435 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,882 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,806 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,347 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,913 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,766 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,804 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,314 | 47.9 |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,136 | 57.6 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,044 | 64.7 |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,101 | 57.5 |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,137 | 53.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,900 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,092 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,281 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,640 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,917 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,736 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,966 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,995 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,066 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,996 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,333 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,053 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,475 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,789 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,795 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,342 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,613 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,849 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,895 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,588 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,234 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,008 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,949 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,014 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,565 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,947 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,667 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,685 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,930 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,695 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,451 | 15.1 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,413 | 15.3 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,251 | 18.9 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,310 | 17.4 |
| 1960 | 32 | #1,414 | 15.0 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,288 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,620 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,991 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,861 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,710 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,082 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,800 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,689 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,578 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,272 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,985 | 8.5 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,069 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,014 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,092 | 8.0 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,293 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,654 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,821 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,147 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,302 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,795 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,846 | 7.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,543 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,275 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,385 | 7.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,085 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,677 | 4.5 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,771 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,699 | 6.7 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,545 | 12.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirkland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirkland has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kirkland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirkland, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,178 Americans ever recorded as Kirkland. The median Kirkland alive today is 31 years old; half are between 27 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,887 people named Kirkland (98 women and girls, 1,789 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 294 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 278 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 556 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 602 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kirkland
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 Kirkland and names like it
- Compare Kirkland and PatricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKirkland peaked in 1997.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirkland since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kirkland.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kirkland alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.