Kirsti
Kirsti was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 1,010 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirsti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kirsti mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Kirsti is “a female given name”
Medieval pet form of Kristiina, perhaps via Danish Kirsten.
/ˈkirsti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kirsti?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,741, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
106 babies in 1991, the peak
Kirsti peaked in 1991, when 106 girls were given it, #1,486 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,741 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,925 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,850 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,174 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,585 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,288 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,045 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,720 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,511 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,120 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 33 | #3,389 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,185 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,113 | 35.4 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,677 | 48.8 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,486 | 56.5 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,647 | 47.4 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,149 | 30.9 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,263 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,683 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,597 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,838 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,626 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,649 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,614 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,096 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,379 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,506 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,652 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,834 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,037 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,694 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,158 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,473 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,406 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,907 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,226 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,867 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,010 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,735 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,073 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,070 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,494 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,904 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,203 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,551 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,386 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,024 | 14.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,179 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,989 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirsti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirsti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirsti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirsti, and how old are they?
An estimated 964 Americans named Kirsti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,101 people named Kirsti (1,099 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 977 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kirsti rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 83,990 babies since 1880, Kirsti is the third most given (1.2% of them).
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 Kirsti
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 Kirsti and names like it
- Compare Kirsti and KristiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKirsti peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirsti since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kirsti: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kirsti.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kirsti alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.