Girls' name · since 1978
Keirston
156 babies named Keirston in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 156
- total births
- 1978–2007
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
Keirston is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 156 have been recorded since 1978.
Keirston has 156 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2007.
- 156 total births
- 1978–2007 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Keirston's 156 recorded births place it above 69% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Keirston's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Keirston's full recorded timeline at 1998, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2001, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1991 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Keirston popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2007
- Peak year (1991)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Keirston by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Keirston's strongest decade.
90 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Keirston births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
90 births
- 2000s
2000s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 90 births (58% of all-time use).
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- Keirston's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (90 total births) through the 2000s (60) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2007 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Keirston: Baby Name Since 1978 - 156 Births, Peak 1991." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/keirston. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keirston draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.