It is called a tilde. It is one of many marks that can be placed above, below, within or between letters of various alphabets, including the marks that are called accents. They all fall under the category of diacritical marks, or diacritics.
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Tilde is a Spanish equivalent of the 'squiggly' mark that goes over the Spanish letter 'n': 'ñ'. It's a feminine noun whose definite article is 'la' ['the'], and whose indefinite article is 'una' ['a, one']. It's pronounced 'teel-deh'.
The "squiggly line" over the n in "señor" (~) is called a tilde, a type of diacritical mark. In Spanish, the ñ is a separate letter of the Spanish alphabet, with a different pronunciation from a regular n. The Spanish ñ has a "ny" sound, while the Spanish regular n is pronounced much the same as in English.
They're called Gras. That's what our Spanish teacher told us in highschool. Normally, it is called a "tilde". That is also the squiggly line above the Spanish letter ñ.
"H" (hache) is the Spanish letter that is silent.
In Spanish, Kirby is pronounced as "Ker-bee." The letter "i" in Spanish is pronounced as "ee," and the letter "y" is pronounced as "ee" as well. Therefore, the pronunciation of Kirby in Spanish follows these phonetic rules.
The letter G is spelled the same in Spanish as it is in English.