Meaning not yet researched.
Kabir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 227 in 2025. Its best rank was #839 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #839 in 2021; #999 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kabir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#999 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #839.
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Kabir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 227 boys in 2025. Peak: #839 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 284 (2021).
In 2025, 227 US boys were named Kabir, making it the 999th most common boys’ name of the year, down 58 places from #941 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 245 boys named Kabir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #839, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 284. For comparison, it was #1,154 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kabir in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 3,601 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,464 babies named Kabir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,264 US boys were named Kabir; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 284. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,525 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kabir ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #401 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kabeer 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: Kabeer (188).
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 Kabir in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 20 | #401 | #444 |
| Washington | 13 | #547 | #665 |
| California | 54 | #562 | #713 |
| New York | 26 | #594 | #1,114 |
| Illinois | 15 | #618 | #935 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #745 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #837 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,118 | #1,055 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,165 | #773 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,284 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,302 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,367 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 227 | #999 |
| 2024 | — | — | 245 | #941 |
| 2023 | — | — | 214 | #1,021 |
| 2022 | — | — | 232 | #974 |
| 2021 | — | — | 284 | #839 |
| 2020 | — | — | 262 | #863 |
| 2019 | — | — | 248 | #885 |
| 2018 | — | — | 207 | #1,000 |
| 2017 | — | — | 166 | #1,145 |
| 2016 | — | — | 179 | #1,099 |
| 2015 | — | — | 163 | #1,154 |
| 2014 | — | — | 125 | #1,372 |
| 2013 | — | — | 75 | #1,888 |
| 2012 | — | — | 91 | #1,684 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,219 |
| 2010 | — | — | 60 | #2,198 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,024 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,249 |
| 2007 | — | — | 46 | #2,670 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,462 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,318 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,398 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,702 |
| 2002 | — | — | 37 | #2,618 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,403 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,706 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,065 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,648 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,940 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,745 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,766 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,955 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,921 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,841 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,542 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,084 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,576 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,305 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,857 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,102 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,510 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,261 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,707 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,015 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,335 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,317 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,111 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,003 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,857 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,274 |
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).