Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old Norse : From the church

Boy name variations

Kirk

Kirk

- 18% this year
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Kirkwood

Kirkwood

0 % this year
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Kirby

Kirby

+ 3% this year
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Kurk

Kurk

0 % this year
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Kirkus

Kirkus

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Kirkland

Kirkland

+ 40% this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Kirkley in Northumberland, found in early records as Crekellawe. The element Crekel is from Celtic crūg ‘hill’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’, to which the tautologous addition (Old English hlā ‘hill’, ‘mound’) was later made. There is also a Kirkley in Suffolk, named from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’, which may also have contributed to the surname.