Keirsten
Keirsten was last recorded in 2020, when 11 babies were given it; 1,370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Keirsten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keirsten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keirsten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,234, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 2005, the peak
Keirsten peaked in 2005, when 66 girls were given it, #2,586 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | #9,234 | 6.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,478 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,479 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,745 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,874 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,351 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,221 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,986 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,356 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,011 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 43 | #3,745 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,193 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,531 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,586 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,691 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,155 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,565 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,649 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,487 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,714 | 28.8 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,415 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,633 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,113 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,432 | 30.1 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,600 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,247 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,103 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,054 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,467 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,943 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,461 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,374 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,589 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,514 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,624 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,181 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,516 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,948 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,496 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,922 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,026 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,711 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,515 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,340 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,260 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,288 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,897 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,054 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,538 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keirsten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keirsten has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keirsten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keirsten, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,370 Americans ever recorded as Keirsten. The median Keirsten alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,170 people named Keirsten (1,158 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 109 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 755 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 68 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,484 babies since 1880, Keirsten is the second most given (18% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keirsten
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Keirsten and names like it
- Compare Keirsten and KerstinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeirsten peaked in 2005.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keirsten since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Keirsten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keirsten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.