Meaning and history
From an English and Scottish surname meaning “church,” derived from Old Norse kirkja and ultimately from Greek κυριακόν (kyriakon), Kirk is a name borne by American actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), who was born Issur Danielovitch.
20062006: 121 births, rank #1,345
2007: 124 births, rank #1,350
2008: 95 births, rank #1,633
2009: 111 births, rank #1,497
2010: 102 births, rank #1,558
20112011: 96 births, rank #1,601
2012: 97 births, rank #1,602
2013: 112 births, rank #1,468
2014: 104 births, rank #1,536
2015: 92 births, rank #1,691
20162016: 80 births, rank #1,863
2017: 95 births, rank #1,661
2018: 70 births, rank #2,046
2019: 76 births, rank #1,938
2020: 67 births, rank #2,094
20212021: 67 births, rank #2,134
2022: 55 births, rank #2,493
2023: 52 births, rank #2,541
2024: 52 births, rank #2,559
20252025: 52 births, rank #2,539
Kirk moved from #887 to #980 for boys between 2001 and 2002. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 2,560 births.