Kabir

Where Kabir comes from

Kabir 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. 1440
    Kabir born
    15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint
  2. 1946
    Kabir Bedi born
    Indian actor
  3. 1976
    First appearance
    #4,935 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2021
    Peak, #837
    284 babies named Kabir — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kabir · 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, 1440–1518
  • Kabir Bedi · Indian actor, born 1946
  • Kabir Khan · Indian film director and screenwriter, born 1971
  • Kabir Suman · Bengali singer, born 1949
  • Kabir Khan · Pakistani cricketer, born 1974

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.