Name

Name BIRD

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 172 births of Bird in the countries below, which represents an average of 1 births of children bearing the first name Bird per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Bird
In Italiano

Nome Bird

Information about the first name Bird

The first name Bird has been assigned to:

33.14% to boys
66.86% to girls

The country where the first name Bird is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 4 letters including 1 vowel and 3 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Bird

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Bird : Brid, Bríd

Bird in Japanese ^*

Romaji	baado
Katakana	バード
Hiragana	ばーど
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Bird in sign language

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Bird in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Bird

English

Etymology

From Middle English brid, 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.

Etymology

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

Etymology (Adjective)

bird (comparative birdier, superlative birdiest)
(Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

Etymology (Verb)

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)
(intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
(intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
(intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
(transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.

Etymology (Noun)

bird (uncountable)
(slang) A prison sentence.

Etymology (Verb)

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)
(transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.

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