Kirubel
Kirubel was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,406 among boys’ names; 245 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirubel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirubel?
#11,406 among boys’ names, 2025
Kirubel fell from #6,161 in 2015 to #11,406 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 3.5 per million.
20 babies in 2018, the peak
Kirubel peaked in 2018, when 20 boys were given it, #4,847 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,406 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,115 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,673 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,895 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,177 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,337 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,847 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,419 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,396 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,161 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,878 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,459 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,950 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,821 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,893 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,214 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,028 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,570 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,301 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,766 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirubel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirubel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirubel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirubel, and how old are they?
An estimated 243 Americans named Kirubel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Kirubel (0 women and girls, 424 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 Kirubel
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.