Kirklin
Kirklin was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 97 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirklin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirklin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,688, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1995, the peak
Kirklin peaked in 1995, when 24 boys were given it, #2,978 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #11,688 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,855 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,847 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,774 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,156 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,368 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,978 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,614 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,955 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirklin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirklin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirklin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirklin, and how old are they?
An estimated 94 Americans named Kirklin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 166 people named Kirklin (11 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 95 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
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 Kirklin
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.