Meaning not yet researched.
Birdie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 422 in 2025. Its best rank was #152 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #152 in 1882; #670 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Birdie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#670 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #152.
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Birdie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 422 girls in 2025. Peak: #152 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 422 (2025).
In 2025, 422 US girls were named Birdie, making it the 670th most common girls’ name of the year, up 74 places from #744 in 2024. That is 44 more than the 378 girls named Birdie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #152, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 422, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,745 in 2015 and #1,200 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Birdie in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 85 babies. In all, 14,814 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 2,220 babies named Birdie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,696 US girls were named Birdie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 422. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,809 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Birdie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #232 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Berdie, Byrdie and Birdia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Berdie (1,114), Byrdie (621), Birdia (489), Berdia (155), Birdy (93), Birdee (65), Birdi (18), Birdye (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Birdie in the open dataset we use.
Birdie is listed as a nickname for Bertha, Roberta.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 20 | #232 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #275 | — |
| Oregon | 12 | #300 | — |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #318 | — |
| Tennessee | 24 | #337 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #382 | — |
| Missouri | 15 | #393 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #447 | — |
| Texas | 66 | #488 | #2,229 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #539 | — |
| Indiana | 12 | #551 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #581 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #586 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #649 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #751 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #763 | — |
| Florida | 21 | #774 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #774 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #812 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #813 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #831 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #835 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #970 | — |
| California | 28 | #976 | #2,059 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,090 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,096 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,261 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 422 | #670 | — | — |
| 2024 | 378 | #744 | — | — |
| 2023 | 411 | #700 | — | — |
| 2022 | 352 | #801 | — | — |
| 2021 | 307 | #884 | — | — |
| 2020 | 255 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2019 | 222 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,580 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,376 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,420 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,980 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,193 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,794 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,813 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,779 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,966 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,908 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,090 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,599 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,140 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,949 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,132 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,011 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,681 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,973 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,221 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,141 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1948 | 78 | #987 | — | — |
| 1947 | 80 | #985 | — | — |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1945 | 77 | #856 | — | — |
| 1944 | 96 | #779 | 5 | #3,480 |
| 1943 | 91 | #807 | — | — |
| 1942 | 101 | #753 | — | — |
| 1941 | 108 | #676 | — | — |
| 1940 | 115 | #650 | — | — |
| 1939 | 106 | #661 | — | — |
| 1938 | 116 | #638 | — | — |
| 1937 | 111 | #643 | — | — |
| 1936 | 112 | #622 | 5 | #3,598 |
| 1935 | 139 | #545 | 5 | #3,700 |
| 1934 | 137 | #551 | — | — |
| 1933 | 134 | #549 | 5 | #3,704 |
| 1932 | 160 | #516 | — | — |
| 1931 | 151 | #538 | — | — |
| 1930 | 173 | #510 | — | — |
| 1929 | 194 | #485 | — | — |
| 1928 | 157 | #560 | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1927 | 193 | #504 | 5 | #4,264 |
| 1926 | 206 | #484 | — | — |
| 1925 | 206 | #488 | 6 | #3,783 |
| 1924 | 227 | #460 | 6 | #3,917 |
| 1923 | 230 | #450 | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1922 | 261 | #407 | — | — |
| 1921 | 256 | #424 | 7 | #3,562 |
| 1920 | 228 | #445 | 8 | #3,242 |
| 1919 | 235 | #425 | 9 | #2,903 |
| 1918 | 264 | #403 | 5 | #4,239 |
| 1917 | 235 | #414 | 5 | #4,049 |
| 1916 | 275 | #377 | 7 | #3,211 |
| 1915 | 256 | #379 | 6 | #3,446 |
| 1914 | 211 | #363 | 5 | #3,305 |
| 1913 | 214 | #328 | — | — |
| 1912 | 185 | #337 | — | — |
| 1911 | 121 | #363 | — | — |
| 1910 | 187 | #283 | — | — |
| 1909 | 159 | #285 | — | — |
| 1908 | 155 | #281 | — | — |
| 1907 | 157 | #279 | — | — |
| 1906 | 150 | #271 | — | — |
| 1905 | 148 | #271 | — | — |
| 1904 | 151 | #257 | — | — |
| 1903 | 138 | #261 | — | — |
| 1902 | 173 | #229 | — | — |
| 1901 | 170 | #218 | — | — |
| 1900 | 204 | #219 | — | — |
| 1899 | 163 | #214 | — | — |
| 1898 | 178 | #216 | — | — |
| 1897 | 151 | #224 | — | — |
| 1896 | 162 | #218 | — | — |
| 1895 | 184 | #199 | 5 | #1,096 |
| 1894 | 169 | #204 | — | — |
| 1893 | 149 | #208 | — | — |
| 1892 | 153 | #204 | — | — |
| 1891 | 138 | #195 | — | — |
| 1890 | 168 | #179 | — | — |
| 1889 | 166 | #177 | — | — |
| 1888 | 181 | #161 | — | — |
| 1887 | 133 | #175 | — | — |
| 1886 | 123 | #183 | — | — |
| 1885 | 131 | #160 | — | — |
| 1884 | 128 | #156 | — | — |
| 1883 | 93 | #171 | — | — |
| 1882 | 113 | #152 | — | — |
| 1881 | 84 | #159 | — | — |
| 1880 | 85 | #155 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).