Kabir

#999 for boys in 2025, 227 births

Peak · boys
2021 · 284 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,601
since 1976

Kabir over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Kabir has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#999227
2024#940245
2023#1,019214
2022#974232
2021#837284
2020#863262
2019#885248
2018#998207
2017#1,141166
2016#1,096179
2015#1,152163
2014#1,362125
2013#1,87875
2012#1,67691
2011#2,20359
2010#2,18760
2009#2,01069
2008#2,23759
2007#2,64346
2006#2,44950
2005#2,29751
2004#2,37647
2003#2,67437
2002#2,60337
2001#2,38641
2000#2,67434
1999#3,03127
1998#3,59720
1997#2,90326
1996#4,61313
1995#3,69317
1994#4,80312
1993#3,81916
1992#3,74816
1991#3,46217
1990#3,97114
1989#6,2297
1988#4,16211
1987#3,73112
1986#4,8538
1985#4,3339
1984#4,9737
1983#4,4998
1982#5,6196
1981#4,1539
1980#4,1349
1979#4,8427
1978#3,8579
1977#4,5827
1976#4,9356
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five boys were named Kabir! It came in at #4,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1986, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kabir
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 59 spots since 2024 (#940#999)
  • 136 spots since 2020 (#863#999)
  • 153 spots since 2015 (#1,152#999)
  • Biggest jump: 143 spots in 2018 (#1,141#998)
  • Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2022 (#837#974)
Rise & fade · boys
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 2021 at #837 (284 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2018–2022
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,160
  • Highest: 1 in 6,160 boys born in 2021 were named Kabir (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 7,525 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 40.7% of all boys named Kabir (1,464) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s29#3,857 (1978)#4,554
1980s86#3,731 (1987)#4,669
1990s178#2,903 (1997)#3,764
2000s471#2,010 (2009)#2,435
2010s1,373#885 (2019)#1,458
2020s1,464#837 (2021)#939

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kabir in 2018

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#998
207 births · 1 in 8,774 boys

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #998Kabir207
More about 2018

boys

1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 8,774 of them was named Kabir, which outranked 92.9% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kabir
  1. #995Coleman208
  2. #995Randall208
  3. #995Zackary208
  4. #998Kabir207
  5. #998Bear207
  6. #998Gus207
  7. #998Kenny207
  8. #1,005Benton206
  9. #1,005Karsen206
  10. #1,005Mac206

Tied with 6 names at #998; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 594Genesis#1,575#981
  2. 436Baker#1,149#713
  3. 430Saint#1,287#857
  4. 319Kairo#802#483
  5. 307Watson#1,020#713
Fallers
  1. 235Aaden#893#1,128
  2. 224Dilan#917#1,141
  3. 201Craig#980#1,181
  4. 177Mike#951#1,128
  5. 172Harper#798#970

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2018