Kirstan — girls' name
479 babies named Kirstan in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Kirstan was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Kirstan in 1995 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kirstan
The Social Security Administration has registered 479 babies named Kirstan between 1968 and 2015, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kirstan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kirstan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kirstan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kirstan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kirstan 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 479 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.
Kirstan at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kirstan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1968
- Peak year (1995)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 48 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
479 total births across 48 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1995 with 27 births in a single year.
Kirstan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 199 births that decade — 42% of Kirstan's all-time total
Kirstan decade highlights
- Peak decade 199 births
- Runner-up 126 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kirstan's strongest decade
199 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Kirstan by state
Where Kirstan concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 2.1% |
10 of 479 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.1% 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, 1968–2015 (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.