Meaning not yet researched.
Kiersten: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #423 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #423 in 1996; #4,704 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiersten in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,704 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #423.
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Kiersten: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #423 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 662 (2005).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Kiersten, making it the 4,704th most common girls’ name of the year, down 775 places from #3,929 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 38 girls named Kiersten in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #423, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 662, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,401 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiersten in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 18 babies. In all, 14,814 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,652 babies named Kiersten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 632 US girls were named Kiersten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kirsten (53,393 babies since 1880), Kirstin (8,778 babies since 1880), Kierstin (3,270 babies since 1880) and Kerstin (2,537 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kierstynn, Keerstin and Kyerstin 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: Kierstynn (107), Keerstin (89), Kyerstin (5).
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 Kiersten 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 | 29 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2015 | 167 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2013 | 192 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 2012 | 215 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 2011 | 295 | #885 | — | — |
| 2010 | 319 | #841 | — | — |
| 2009 | 366 | #776 | — | — |
| 2008 | 465 | #658 | — | — |
| 2007 | 508 | #589 | — | — |
| 2006 | 592 | #513 | — | — |
| 2005 | 662 | #460 | — | — |
| 2004 | 660 | #455 | — | — |
| 2003 | 602 | #485 | — | — |
| 2002 | 586 | #479 | — | — |
| 2001 | 573 | #488 | — | — |
| 2000 | 638 | #443 | — | — |
| 1999 | 532 | #488 | — | — |
| 1998 | 562 | #459 | — | — |
| 1997 | 550 | #457 | 5 | #10,100 |
| 1996 | 603 | #423 | — | — |
| 1995 | 547 | #461 | — | — |
| 1994 | 481 | #521 | — | — |
| 1993 | 478 | #513 | — | — |
| 1992 | 408 | #571 | — | — |
| 1991 | 405 | #573 | — | — |
| 1990 | 362 | #622 | — | — |
| 1989 | 293 | #692 | — | — |
| 1988 | 200 | #882 | — | — |
| 1987 | 146 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1986 | 127 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1981 | 96 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,018 | — | — |
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).