Given name & surname
Wirt
“one who is worthy”
Wirt is used as a given name and a surname. One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “one who is worthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “one who is worthy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Anglo-Saxon.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wirt through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 286
- 286 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1959. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 126 as a first name in 2020; 2,029 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.
Wirt’s family of names
In German usage, Wirt as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Ward. Wirt has a related form in Wirte. Wirt has a related form in Wurt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Wirt has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Old English roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wirt
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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