Karsten
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 107 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,252since 1950
Karsten over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,303 | 24 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,918 | 42 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,230 | 61 |
| 2017 | — | #2,170 | 62 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,903 | 77 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,036 | 70 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,563 | 100 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,478 | 109 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,448 | 113 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #1,562 | 104 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,341 | 125 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,273 | 131 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,315 | 115 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,292 | 115 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #1,381 | 97 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,498 | 84 |
| 2001 | — | #1,242 | 107 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #1,314 | 98 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,604 | 67 |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,785 | 51 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #1,430 | 69 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,851 | 46 |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,214 | 32 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | — | #1,909 | 34 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,071 | 14 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,138 | 24 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,616 | 34 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,736 | 26 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,819 | 24 |
| 1971 | — | #1,637 | 29 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,374 | 37 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,680 | 24 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #2,210 | 14 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karsten! It came in at #3,329, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Karsten
- 243 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #4,139)
- 328 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #4,139)
- 2,103 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #4,139)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2001 at #1,242 (107 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,212 boys born in 2010 were named Karsten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 68,323 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,242 in 2001, was only 1 in 18,158 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.3% of all boys named Karsten (1,084) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 18 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,477 |
| 1960s | 98 | #1,680 (1969) | #2,574 |
| 1970s | 283 | #1,374 (1970) | #1,753 |
| 1980s | 211 | #1,909 (1988) | #2,572 |
| 1990s | 498 | #1,430 (1995) | #1,837 |
| 2000s | 1,084 | #1,242 (2001) | #1,372 |
| 2010s | 887 | #1,284 (2010) | #1,784 |
| 2020s | 173 | #2,918 (2021) | #3,845 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karsten in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 153,021 of them was named Karsten, which outranked 53.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,259Zorah13
- #8,259Zori13
- #8,259Zyanna13
- #8,716Karsten12
- #8,716Aailyah12
- #8,716Aalia12
- #8,716Aamya12
- #9,264Aaminah11
- #9,264Aarti11
- #9,264Aaryanna11
Tied with 547 names at #8,716; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 17,261 of them was named Karsten, which outranked 90.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,287Mykel116
- #1,287Nate116
- #1,287Wilmer116
- #1,292Karsten115
- #1,292Akash115
- #1,292Aleksander115
- #1,292Beck115
- #1,304Corban114
- #1,304Daxton114
- #1,304Floyd114
Tied with 11 names at #1,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.