Meaning not yet researched.
Kirsten: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 1991; #2,841 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kirsten in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,841 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #154.
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Kirsten: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #154 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 1,931 (1991).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Kirsten, making it the 2,841st most common girls’ name of the year, up 304 places from #3,145 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 51 girls named Kirsten in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #154, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,931. For comparison, it was #1,715 in 2015 and #1,815 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kirsten in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 10 babies. In all, 53,393 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 16,919 babies named Kirsten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 743 US girls were named Kirsten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kirsten ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #791 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Christiana (10,938 babies since 1880), Kerstin (2,537 babies since 1880), Christiane (2,263 babies since 1880) and Kyrsten (1,995 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kersten, Kierston and Keirstin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kersten (918), Kierston (862), Keirstin (547), Kearsten (530), Kierstan (482), Kirstan (479), Kerstyn (426), Keirstyn (369), Kirston (228), Kyrstyn (194), Keirston (156), Kirstine (126), and more.
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 Kirsten in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #791 | #991 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,151 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2016 | 150 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2015 | 123 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2013 | 212 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2012 | 256 | #987 | — | — |
| 2011 | 309 | #854 | — | — |
| 2010 | 319 | #842 | — | — |
| 2009 | 454 | #652 | — | — |
| 2008 | 543 | #568 | — | — |
| 2007 | 726 | #444 | — | — |
| 2006 | 783 | #407 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,003 | #322 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,089 | #298 | 12 | #6,357 |
| 2003 | 1,116 | #280 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,126 | #278 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,224 | #260 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,273 | #255 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,533 | #200 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,547 | #202 | 8 | #7,247 |
| 1997 | 1,633 | #185 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,773 | #176 | 5 | #9,860 |
| 1995 | 1,681 | #180 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,537 | #193 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,546 | #189 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,832 | #166 | 7 | #7,084 |
| 1991 | 1,931 | #154 | 7 | #6,944 |
| 1990 | 1,869 | #157 | 10 | #5,208 |
| 1989 | 1,538 | #183 | 10 | #5,017 |
| 1988 | 1,221 | #214 | 9 | #5,023 |
| 1987 | 891 | #276 | 7 | #5,811 |
| 1986 | 747 | #322 | — | — |
| 1985 | 751 | #319 | 8 | #4,947 |
| 1984 | 724 | #324 | 6 | #6,003 |
| 1983 | 715 | #324 | 8 | #4,722 |
| 1982 | 740 | #328 | 6 | #6,046 |
| 1981 | 709 | #335 | — | — |
| 1980 | 705 | #343 | 12 | #3,523 |
| 1979 | 817 | #293 | 10 | #3,953 |
| 1978 | 814 | #285 | 13 | #3,151 |
| 1977 | 687 | #336 | 8 | #4,404 |
| 1976 | 714 | #316 | 5 | #6,069 |
| 1975 | 762 | #303 | — | — |
| 1974 | 808 | #296 | 11 | #3,234 |
| 1973 | 790 | #297 | 7 | #4,306 |
| 1972 | 901 | #284 | — | — |
| 1971 | 936 | #296 | 7 | #4,179 |
| 1970 | 1,034 | #284 | 12 | #2,804 |
| 1969 | 1,156 | #253 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,107 | #248 | — | — |
| 1967 | 816 | #303 | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1966 | 852 | #297 | 8 | #3,127 |
| 1965 | 641 | #358 | — | — |
| 1964 | 687 | #363 | — | — |
| 1963 | 598 | #392 | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1962 | 306 | #561 | — | — |
| 1961 | 241 | #663 | — | — |
| 1960 | 258 | #629 | — | — |
| 1959 | 195 | #717 | — | — |
| 1958 | 139 | #867 | — | — |
| 1957 | 109 | #996 | — | — |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,844 | — | — |
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).