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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Karsten is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#435 · 1 in 2,768
- Washington#542 · 1 in 3,715
- Oklahoma#628 · 1 in 4,356
- Minnesota#633 · 1 in 5,065
- Utah#657 · 1 in 4,759
Best ever in a state: #361 in Oklahoma, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #435 | 6 | 1 in 2,768 |
| Washington | #542 | 10 | 1 in 3,715 |
| Oklahoma | #628 | 5 | 1 in 4,356 |
| Minnesota | #633 | 6 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Utah | #657 | 5 | 1 in 4,759 |
| Wisconsin | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,975 |
| Texas | #1,414 | 10 | 1 in 19,035 |
| California | #1,509 | 11 | 1 in 23,771 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 384,523 of them was named Karsten, which outranked 14.3% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 16,603 of them was named Karsten, which outranked 90.7% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,337Gregorio126
- #1,337Joseluis126
- #1,337Kooper126
- #1,341Karsten125
- #1,341Avraham125
- #1,341Broden125
- #1,341Darrin125
- #1,350Abdul124
- #1,350Bodhi124
- #1,350Colter124
Tied with 8 names at #1,341; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.