Kerstin — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kerstin

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,535 babies named Kerstin between 1950 and 2021, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kerstin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 97 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kerstin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 783 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kerstin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 172 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kerstin in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kerstin 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 2,535 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.