Fewer than five US girls were named Kirsti in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,491, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kirsti in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 1,010 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 500 babies named Kirsti.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Kirsti.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Krista (73,863 babies since 1880), Kerstin (2,537 babies since 1880), Kirstie (4,151 babies since 1880) and Kirsty (945 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kirsi, Kiersty and Kersty are summarised on this page.
Meaning
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.