Girls' name · since 1989
Kirstein
68 babies named Kirstein in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 68
- total births
- 1989–2004
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Kirstein is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 68 have been recorded since 1989.
Kirstein has 68 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2004.
- 68 total births
- 1989–2004 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kirstein's 68 recorded births place it above 56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kirstein's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kirstein splits its recorded history at 1996: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1989 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2001 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kirstein popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2004
- Peak year (2001)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Kirstein by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kirstein's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Kirstein births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s
1990s
37 births
- 2000s
2000s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 37 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Kirstein's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (37 total births) through the 2000s (26) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2004 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kirstein: Baby Name Since 1989 - 68 Births, Peak 2001." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kirstein. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kirstein draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.