Kirt
Kirt was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 3,615 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Kirt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 49 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirt?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,904, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
179 babies in 1962, the peak
Kirt peaked in 1962, when 179 boys were given it, #584 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #11,904 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,378 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,195 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,496 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,268 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,727 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,856 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,339 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,665 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,127 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 14 | #4,511 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,628 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,831 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,746 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,402 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,641 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,237 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,876 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,219 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,815 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,986 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,851 | 17.3 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,777 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,387 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,376 | 26.5 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,263 | 29.6 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,280 | 29.7 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,234 | 32.5 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,246 | 31.7 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,228 | 31.6 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,201 | 33.1 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,005 | 42.9 |
| 1974 | 75 | #943 | 47.7 |
| 1973 | 89 | #842 | 57.1 |
| 1972 | 110 | #759 | 67.8 |
| 1971 | 98 | #820 | 55.4 |
| 1970 | 123 | #743 | 66.2 |
| 1969 | 129 | #699 | 72.1 |
| 1968 | 143 | #634 | 82.3 |
| 1967 | 155 | #600 | 88.9 |
| 1966 | 136 | #634 | 76.3 |
| 1965 | 144 | #633 | 77.4 |
| 1964 | 140 | #657 | 70.3 |
| 1963 | 139 | #665 | 68.4 |
| 1962 | 179 | #584 | 86.5 |
| 1961 | 102 | #763 | 48.0 |
| 1960 | 110 | #735 | 51.6 |
| 1959 | 97 | #778 | 45.4 |
| 1958 | 86 | #812 | 40.5 |
| 1957 | 123 | #689 | 57.0 |
| 1956 | 73 | #878 | 34.5 |
| 1955 | 60 | #974 | 29.1 |
| 1954 | 63 | #935 | 30.9 |
| 1953 | 62 | #914 | 31.4 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,140 | 21.6 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,232 | 19.1 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,265 | 18.4 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,595 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,445 | 14.8 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,678 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,480 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,071 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,553 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,952 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,081 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,330 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,770 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,723 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,362 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,579 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,964 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirt, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 3,615 Americans ever recorded as Kirt. The median Kirt alive today is 58 years old; half are between 49 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 3,127 people named Kirt (10 women and girls, 3,117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 461 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 84 |
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 Kirt born?
The states with the most babies named Kirt are Michigan, California and Louisiana, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 315 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 248 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 154 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 150 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 126 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| New York | 99 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 73 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kirt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kirt is most over-represented in Utah: since 1919 it was given 4.2 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 Kirt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kirt
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 Kirt and names like it
- Compare Kirt and ScotBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKirt peaked in 1962.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirt since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Kirt.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kirt alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.