Kiersten
Kiersten was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,703 among girls’ names; 14,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,500 Americans named Kiersten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiersten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiersten mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiersten is “a female given name of American usage, variant of Kirsten.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiersten?
#4,703 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiersten fell from #1,401 in 2015 to #4,703 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 93.6 to 18.0 per million.
662 babies in 2005, the peak
Kiersten peaked in 2005, when 662 girls were given it, #460 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,703 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,929 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,676 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,075 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,906 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,699 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,523 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,211 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,969 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,848 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 167 | #1,401 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 192 | #1,244 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 215 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 295 | #885 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 319 | #841 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 366 | #776 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 465 | #658 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 508 | #589 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 592 | #513 | 0.31 |
| 2005 | 662 | #460 | 0.36 |
| 2004 | 660 | #455 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 602 | #485 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 586 | #479 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 573 | #488 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 638 | #443 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 532 | #488 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 562 | #459 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 550 | #457 | 0.32 |
| 1996 | 603 | #423 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 547 | #461 | 0.31 |
| 1994 | 481 | #521 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 478 | #513 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 408 | #571 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 405 | #573 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 362 | #621 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 293 | #691 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 200 | #882 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 146 | #1,057 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 127 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,190 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,482 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,639 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,664 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 96 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,083 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,442 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,786 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,689 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,338 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,334 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,480 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,338 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,508 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,463 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,326 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,271 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,017 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiersten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiersten has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiersten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiersten, and how old are they?
14,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 14,814 Americans ever recorded as Kiersten. The median Kiersten alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 13,430 people named Kiersten (13,385 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 912 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kiersten born?
The states with the most babies named Kiersten are Pennsylvania, California and New York, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,072 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 958 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 847 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 832 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 770 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 743 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 614 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 516 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 460 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 433 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kiersten is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiersten is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1963 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kiersten with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 87,842 babies since 1880, Kiersten is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 101 babies (29%), again the second most given.
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 Kiersten
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 Kiersten and names like it
- Compare Kiersten and KirstenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiersten peaked in 2005.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiersten since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kiersten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiersten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.