Given name & surname
Baird
“a minstrel; a poet”
Baird is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a minstrel; a poet.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a minstrel; a poet.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Baird through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 472
- 472 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 406 as a first name in 2020; 33,405 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Baird’s family of names
Baird has a related form in Baerd. Baird has a related form in Baerde. Baird has a related form in Bairde.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Baird
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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