Meaning not yet researched.
Karsten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,249 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,249 in 2001; #4,194 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Karsten in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,194 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,249.
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Karsten: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,249 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 135 (2010).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Karsten, making it the 4,194th most common boys’ name of the year, down 261 places from #3,933 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 28 boys named Karsten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,249, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 135, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,044 in 2015 and #3,508 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Karsten, making it the 16,079th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #7,063, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 13. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karsten in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 3,424 US babies have been given the name, 5.0% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,156 babies named Karsten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 446 US boys were named Karsten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carsten (2,377 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karston, Carston and Karstyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karston (681), Carston (642), Karstyn (105), Karstin (15), Carstyn (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Karsten in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,079 | 25 | #4,194 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,933 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,065 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,370 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,945 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,867 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,750 | 73 | #2,010 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,857 | 61 | #2,247 |
| 2017 | — | — | 62 | #2,178 |
| 2016 | — | — | 77 | #1,911 |
| 2015 | — | — | 70 | #2,044 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,739 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,886 | 100 | #1,565 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,188 | 109 | #1,484 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,052 | 113 | #1,454 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,392 | 135 | #1,287 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,042 | 104 | #1,569 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,099 | 108 | #1,509 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,015 | 125 | #1,344 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,967 | 131 | #1,281 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,435 | 115 | #1,319 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,970 | 115 | #1,302 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,776 | 97 | #1,386 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,879 | 84 | #1,502 |
| 2001 | — | — | 107 | #1,249 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,252 | 98 | #1,319 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,886 | 67 | #1,619 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,655 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,063 | 51 | #1,848 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,020 | 51 | #1,801 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,392 | 69 | #1,442 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,545 | 46 | #1,857 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,319 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,315 | 42 | #1,944 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,813 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,236 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,346 | 24 | #2,653 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,931 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,780 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,030 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,018 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,369 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,152 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,645 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,166 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,487 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,198 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,634 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,927 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,589 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,918 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,862 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,755 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,846 | 24 | #1,851 |
| 1971 | — | — | 29 | #1,652 |
| 1970 | — | — | 37 | #1,385 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,706 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,665 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,296 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,396 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,159 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,356 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,264 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,421 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,100 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,508 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).