Kirti — girls' name
69 babies named Kirti in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
70% of everyone ever named Kirti was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Kirti in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kirti
The Social Security Administration has registered 69 babies named Kirti between 1986 and 2012, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kirti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kirti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 48 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kirti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kirti in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kirti in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 69 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kirti at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kirti popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1986
- Peak year (2003)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
69 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 13 births in a single year.
Kirti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 48 births that decade — 70% of Kirti's all-time total
Kirti decade highlights
- Peak decade 48 births
- Runner-up 7 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kirti's strongest decade
48 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 70% of all-time use.
Kirti by state
Where Kirti concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 7.2% |
5 of 69 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 7.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.