Kierstin
Kierstin was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 3,270 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,210 Americans named Kierstin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kierstin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kierstin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,446, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
174 babies in 2005, the peak
Kierstin peaked in 2005, when 174 girls were given it, #1,284 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,446 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,668 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,841 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,379 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,793 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,953 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,891 | 12.4 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,815 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,101 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,205 | 19.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 48 | #3,402 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,971 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,660 | 38.3 |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,604 | 38.6 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,956 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,980 | 54.1 |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,635 | 68.4 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,284 | 94.2 |
| 2004 | 133 | #1,517 | 72.4 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,489 | 71.7 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,400 | 76.8 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,551 | 66.6 |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,389 | 73.8 |
| 1999 | 139 | #1,304 | 78.4 |
| 1998 | 127 | #1,361 | 71.9 |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,253 | 81.6 |
| 1996 | 121 | #1,386 | 69.0 |
| 1995 | 141 | #1,217 | 80.2 |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,252 | 76.7 |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,336 | 69.1 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,463 | 58.6 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,492 | 56.0 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,723 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,175 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,227 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,814 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,165 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,207 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,956 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,781 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,097 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,837 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,914 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,388 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,547 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,778 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,383 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,844 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,322 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,692 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,266 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,949 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,135 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,865 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,519 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,384 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,165 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kierstin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kierstin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kierstin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kierstin, and how old are they?
3,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,270 Americans ever recorded as Kierstin. The median Kierstin alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,831 people named Kierstin (2,825 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 186 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Kierstin born?
The states with the most babies named Kierstin are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 197 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 195 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 155 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 149 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 144 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 123 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 122 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Kierstin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kierstin is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1966 it was given 1.6 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 Kierstin 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 87,121 babies since 1880, Kierstin is the fourth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 101 babies recorded by SSA was a Kierstin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kierstin
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 Kierstin and names like it
- Compare Kierstin and KirstenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKierstin peaked in 2005.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kierstin since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kierstin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kierstin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.