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Baby name
Kirk
Boy
Origin of the name
Kirk comes from the Old Norse kirkja, “church,” through a Scottish and northern English surname.
Short-lived name
68,067births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 138rank at its peak, in 1962
Where babies named Kirk are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Kirk is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Kirk is most common in Iowa (2.6 times), Nebraska (2.4) and Utah (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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