Karsten — #3903 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Karsten

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,225 babies named Karsten between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Karsten currently holds the #3903 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 135 babies received it in a single year. Karsten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 167 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karsten performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,084 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Karsten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 197 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Karsten in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karsten in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,225 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.