Kersten — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kersten

The Social Security Administration has registered 918 babies named Kersten between 1963 and 2015, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kersten currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 46 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kersten performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 379 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kersten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Kersten in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kersten 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 918 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.