Kierston — girls' name
849 babies named Kierston in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Kierston was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Kierston in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kierston
The Social Security Administration has registered 849 babies named Kierston between 1971 and 2023, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kierston currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kierston performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 304 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kierston shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Kierston in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kierston 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 849 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.
Kierston at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kierston popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1971
- Peak year (2001)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
849 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 43 births in a single year.
Kierston popularity over time — boys
13 total births recorded since 1990 (Kierston as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Kierston accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kierston by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 304 births that decade — 36% of Kierston's all-time total
Kierston decade highlights
- Peak decade 304 births
- Runner-up 300 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kierston's strongest decade
304 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Kierston by state
Where Kierston concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 12 | 1.4% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #3 | Indiana | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.6% |
12 of 849 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.4% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.2% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.7% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.