Bîrd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bîrd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English brid with metathesis, from Old English bridd (“chick, baby bird”), of uncertain origin and relation; but its stock root is possibly onomatopoeic.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2Kas Brad(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.3Kas Brad
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.6Kas Brad
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bîrd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #835 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 590 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 named Brad, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Brad
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brad in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 4 more and Bird in GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishbrid(measured from records)
- Old Englishbridd“chick“chick, baby bird”(measured from records)
From Middle English brid with metathesis, from Old English bridd (“chick, baby bird”), of uncertain origin and relation; but its stock root is possibly onomatopoeic. Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century. The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th Century.
Sources 5
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bîrd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Brad | 37 |
| US United States | #329 | 99,078as Brad | 1 in 3.4K | 99K | Brad | 590 |
| CA Canada | #222 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Brad | 271 |
| AU Australia | #250 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 74 | Brad | 289 |
| GB United Kingdom | #495 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 4 | Bird | 300 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #925 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Brad | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | #205 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 12 | Brad | 140 |
| SG Singapore | #328 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Brad | 54 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bîrd mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English brid with metathesis, from Old English bridd (“chick, baby bird”), of uncertain origin and relation; but its stock root is possibly onomatopoeic. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Bîrd a male or female name?
- Bîrd is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bîrd have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 414 thousand people named Brad in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bîrd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 99,078 people named Brad in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bîrd compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Bîrd is the 205th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bîrd” — the 205th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.