Birt

Where Birt comes from

Birt 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. 1854
    Birt Acres born
    Cinematographer and cinema innovator
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #533
    11 babies named Birt — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #971.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Birt Acres · Cinematographer and cinema innovator, 1854–1918

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.