Keirsten — girls' name

What the Data Says About Keirsten

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,370 babies named Keirsten between 1968 and 2020, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keirsten currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 66 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keirsten performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 524 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Keirsten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 75 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Keirsten in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keirsten 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 1,370 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.