Girls' name · since 1989
Kerstie
Since 1989, U.S. Social Security records show 69 babies named Kerstie, peaking in 1990. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 69
- total births
- 1989–1998
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 90%
- born in that decade
Kerstie is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 69 have been recorded since 1989.
Kerstie has 69 recorded births among girls since 1989, 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 1989 to 1998.
- 69 total births
- 1989–1998 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 90% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kerstie's 69 recorded births place it above 57% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kerstie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kerstie splits its recorded history at 1993: 39% of all births land in the more recent half, 61% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1997 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1990 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kerstie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–1998
- Peak year (1990)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Kerstie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kerstie's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 90% of all-time use.
Kerstie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 7
1980s
7 births
- 1990s
1990s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 62 births (90% of all-time use).
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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, 1989–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kerstie: Baby Name Since 1989 - 69 Births, Peak 1990." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kerstie. 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 Kerstie 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.