Bird

Where Bird comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bird.

Bird through the years
  1. 1865
    Bird Segle McGuire born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    Bird J. Vincent born
    American politician
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #547 among girls with 10 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1927
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Bird J. Vincent · American politician, 1880–1931
  • Bird Segle McGuire · American politician, 1865–1930
  • Bird Beers Chapman · American politician, 1821–1871
  • Bird Carroll · American football player, 1896–1982
  • Bird M. Pearson · American politician, 1803–1859

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.