Kiersten
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 603 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,809since 1963
Kiersten over time
Rank among girls' names. Kiersten has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #4,661 | 29 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,207 | 84 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,399 | 167 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,275 | 188 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,242 | 192 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,148 | 215 | — | |
| 2011 | #885 | 295 | — | |
| 2010 | #840 | 319 | — | |
| 2009 | #776 | 366 | — | |
| 2008 | #658 | 465 | — | |
| 2007 | #589 | 508 | — | |
| 2006 | #512 | 592 | — | |
| 2005 | #460 | 662 | — | |
| 2004 | #455 | 660 | — | |
| 2003 | #485 | 602 | — | |
| 2002 | #479 | 586 | — | |
| 2001 | #487 | 573 | — | |
| 2000 | #443 | 638 | — | |
| 1999 | #487 | 532 | — | |
| 1998 | #459 | 562 | — | |
| 1997 | #457 | 550 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #422 | 603 | — | |
| 1995 | #461 | 547 | — | |
| 1994 | #519 | 481 | — | |
| 1993 | #513 | 478 | — | |
| 1992 | #571 | 408 | — | |
| 1991 | #573 | 405 | — | |
| 1990 | #620 | 362 | — | |
| 1989 | #692 | 293 | — | |
| 1988 | #880 | 200 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,052 | 146 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,136 | 127 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,185 | 119 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,475 | 78 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,629 | 68 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,653 | 69 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,315 | 96 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,069 | 50 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,569 | 73 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,774 | 57 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,334 | 79 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,329 | 76 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,473 | 65 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,405 | 75 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,330 | 79 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,499 | 62 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,459 | 60 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,881 | 39 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,246 | 29 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kiersten! It came in at #2,960, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kiersten
- 769 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #4,661)
- 1,979 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #4,661)
- 3,262 spots since 2015 (#1,399 → #4,661)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1989 (#880 → #692)
- Biggest drop: 263 spots in 2012 (#885 → #1,148)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1996 at #422 (603 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1988–2011
- Highest: 1 in 2,782 girls born in 2004 were named Kiersten (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #422 in 1996, was only 1 in 2,907 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.2% of all girls named Kiersten (5,652) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 254 | #1,459 (1968) | #2,169 |
| 1970s | 721 | #1,329 (1973) | #1,468 |
| 1980s | 1,246 | #692 (1989) | #1,309 |
| 1990s | 4,928 | #422 (1996) | #508 |
| 2000s | 5,652 | #443 (2000) | #534 |
| 2010s | 1,743 | #840 (2010) | #1,531 |
| 2020s | 265 | #2,682 (2020) | #3,635 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kiersten in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 3,165 of them was named Kiersten, which outranked 97.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 377,028 of them was named Kiersten, which outranked 14.3% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,549 names at #9,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.