Kirsten
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #6,138
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 1,931 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 53,181since 1937
Kirsten over time
Rank among girls' names. Kirsten has never cracked the top 100 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 | #2,822 | 60 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,720 | 63 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,929 | 57 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,889 | 107 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,512 | 150 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,711 | 123 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,291 | 184 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,135 | 212 | — | |
| 2012 | #985 | 256 | — | |
| 2011 | #852 | 309 | — | |
| 2010 | #840 | 319 | — | |
| 2009 | #652 | 454 | — | |
| 2008 | #567 | 543 | — | |
| 2007 | #444 | 726 | — | |
| 2006 | #407 | 783 | — | |
| 2005 | #321 | 1,003 | — | |
| 2004 | #298 | 1,089 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #280 | 1,116 | — | |
| 2002 | #277 | 1,126 | — | |
| 2001 | #260 | 1,224 | — | |
| 2000 | #255 | 1,273 | — | |
| 1999 | #200 | 1,533 | — | |
| 1998 | #202 | 1,547 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #185 | 1,633 | — | |
| 1996 | #176 | 1,773 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #180 | 1,681 | — | |
| 1994 | #193 | 1,537 | — | |
| 1993 | #188 | 1,546 | — | |
| 1992 | #166 | 1,832 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #154 | 1,931 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #157 | 1,869 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #183 | 1,538 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #214 | 1,221 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #276 | 891 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #322 | 747 | — | |
| 1985 | #319 | 751 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #324 | 724 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #324 | 715 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #328 | 740 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #335 | 709 | — | |
| 1980 | #343 | 705 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #293 | 817 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #285 | 814 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #336 | 687 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #316 | 714 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #303 | 762 | — | |
| 1974 | #296 | 808 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #297 | 790 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #284 | 901 | — | |
| 1971 | #296 | 936 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #284 | 1,034 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #253 | 1,156 | — | |
| 1968 | #248 | 1,107 | — | |
| 1967 | #303 | 816 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #297 | 852 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #356 | 641 | — | |
| 1964 | #362 | 687 | — | |
| 1963 | #392 | 598 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #560 | 306 | — | |
| 1961 | #663 | 241 | — | |
| 1960 | #627 | 258 | — | |
| 1959 | #716 | 195 | — | |
| 1958 | #866 | 139 | — | |
| 1957 | #995 | 109 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,105 | 87 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,118 | 79 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,285 | 59 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,586 | 38 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,430 | 46 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,665 | 33 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,794 | 28 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,564 | 35 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,548 | 36 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,722 | 31 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,508 | 34 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,699 | 24 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,578 | 27 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,591 | 28 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,497 | 30 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,472 | 28 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,591 | 24 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,038 | 16 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kirsten! It came in at #2,735, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1938, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kirsten
- 297 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #2,822)
- 354 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #2,822)
- 1,111 spots since 2015 (#1,711 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1963 (#560 → #392)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 2010 (#652 → #840)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1991 at #154 (1,931 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1957–2012
- Highest: 1 in 971 girls born in 1991 were named Kirsten (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.7% of all girls named Kirsten (16,882) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 40 | #2,038 (1939) | #2,333 |
| 1940s | 297 | #1,472 (1941) | #1,577 |
| 1950s | 813 | #716 (1959) | #1,256 |
| 1960s | 6,662 | #248 (1968) | #406 |
| 1970s | 8,263 | #284 (1970) | #299 |
| 1980s | 8,741 | #183 (1989) | #297 |
| 1990s | 16,882 | #154 (1991) | #180 |
| 2000s | 9,337 | #255 (2000) | #376 |
| 2010s | 1,809 | #840 (2010) | #1,513 |
| 2020s | 337 | #2,468 (2020) | #3,018 |
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.
Kirsten in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 971 of them was named Kirsten, which outranked 99.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 288,618 of them was named Kirsten, which outranked 32.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,942Zackaria8
- #5,942Zan8
- #5,942Zephan8
- #6,519Kirsten7
- #6,519Aaronmichael7
- #6,519Abayomi7
- #6,519Abed7
- #7,271Aaronjames6
- #7,271Abad6
- #7,271Abanoub6
Tied with 751 names at #6,519; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.