Meaning and history
From an English surname that came from a place name meaning “church settlement” in Old Norse, Kirby briefly rose in popularity for American girls in 1982 after the character Kirby Anders Colby was introduced on the soap opera Dynasty.
20062006: 22 births, rank #5,906
2007: 20 births, rank #6,552
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 25 births, rank #5,537
2010: 24 births, rank #5,602
20112011: 25 births, rank #5,358
2012: 30 births, rank #4,707
2013: 27 births, rank #5,013
2014: 31 births, rank #4,544
2015: 28 births, rank #4,853
20162016: 31 births, rank #4,531
2017: 33 births, rank #4,304
2018: 46 births, rank #3,396
2019: 34 births, rank #4,162
2020: 39 births, rank #3,735
20212021: 62 births, rank #2,751
2022: 62 births, rank #2,756
2023: 55 births, rank #3,014
2024: 70 births, rank #2,533
20252025: 65 births, rank #2,645
Kirby rose from #979 to #972 for boys between 1995 and 1996. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 357 births.