Wirt
Wirt was last recorded in 1959, when 7 babies were given it; 286 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wirt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wirt?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,612, in 1959; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1920, the peak
Wirt peaked in 1920, when 18 boys were given it, #1,961 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | #3,612 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,389 | 2.4 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,702 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,191 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,008 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,329 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,897 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,026 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,542 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,717 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 7 | #3,272 | 6.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,769 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,752 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,994 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,949 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,404 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,134 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,431 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,469 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,463 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,009 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,149 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,961 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,387 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,802 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,724 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,386 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,177 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,907 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,810 | 11.7 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,232 | 43.2 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,065 | 49.3 |
| 1886 | 7 | #842 | 63.2 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,094 | 46.4 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,094 | 44.0 |
| 1881 | 8 | #702 | 79.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wirt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wirt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wirt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wirt, and how old are they?
An estimated 27 Americans named Wirt 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 126 people named Wirt (2 women and girls, 124 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 42 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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).
More about Wirt and names like it
- The most given names of the 1920sWirt peaked in 1920.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wirt since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Wirt.
- Names starting with WMost given first.