Kierston
Kierston was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 862 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kierston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kierston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,447, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1990, the peak
Kierston peaked in 1990, when 43 babies were given it (38 girls, #2,979 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,447 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,533 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,842 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,073 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,516 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,579 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,420 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,843 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,883 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,892 | 8.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 23 | #6,039 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,614 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,632 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,642 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,948 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,606 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,849 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,223 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,238 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,024 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,780 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,852 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,467 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,723 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,483 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,315 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,017 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,405 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,979 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,827 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,949 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,538 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,846 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,926 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,592 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,323 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,067 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,106 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,005 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,738 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,008 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,878 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,917 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kierston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 862 Americans recorded as Kierston, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kierston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kierston, and how old are they?
An estimated 846 Americans named Kierston 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 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 798 people named Kierston (746 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,329 babies since 1880, Kierston is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 101 babies recorded by SSA was a Kierston (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 Kierston
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 Kierston and names like it
- Compare Kierston and KirstenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKierston peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kierston since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kierston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kierston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.