Bird

Where Bird comes from

Bird hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1865
    Bird Segle McGuire born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    Bird J. Vincent born
    American politician
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #547 among girls with 10 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1927
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bird J. Vincent · American politician, 1880–1931
  • Bird Segle McGuire · American politician, 1865–1930
  • Bird Beers Chapman · American politician, 1821–1871
  • Bird Carroll · American football player, 1896–1982
  • Bird M. Pearson · American politician, 1803–1859

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.