Kersti
Kersti was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 62 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kersti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kersti?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,549, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1990, the peak
Kersti peaked in 1990, when 18 girls were given it, #5,166 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,549 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,786 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,166 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,551 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,789 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,352 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,255 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kersti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kersti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 7 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kersti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kersti, and how old are they?
An estimated 60 Americans named Kersti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Kersti (178 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kersti rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kersti
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.