Kersten
Kersten was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 918 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kersten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kersten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,845, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1997, the peak
Kersten peaked in 1997, when 46 girls were given it, #2,714 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,845 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,826 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,469 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,488 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,789 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,035 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,754 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,638 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,445 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,549 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 26 | #4,620 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,136 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,842 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,687 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,714 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,775 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,995 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,008 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,246 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,104 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,117 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,868 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,432 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,565 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,954 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,412 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,694 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,068 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,002 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,121 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,427 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,840 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,969 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,051 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,776 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,745 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,309 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,489 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,687 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,788 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,030 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,785 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,690 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,518 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,783 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,056 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,644 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,599 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,209 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kersten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kersten 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 Kersten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kersten, and how old are they?
An estimated 887 Americans named Kersten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 937 people named Kersten (874 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 896 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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, Kersten is the third most given (12% 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 Kersten
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 Kersten and names like it
- Compare Kersten and KerstinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKersten peaked in 1997.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kersten since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kersten.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kersten alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.