Kirstin
Kirstin was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 8,778 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,460 Americans named Kirstin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirstin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kirstin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,458, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
413 babies in 1990, the peak
Kirstin peaked in 1990, when 413 girls were given it, #563 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,585 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,852 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,863 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,370 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,762 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,787 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,108 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,748 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,436 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | #4,517 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,667 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,274 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,526 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,078 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,780 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,542 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,522 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,322 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,081 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 185 | #1,133 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 219 | #966 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 240 | #889 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 236 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 254 | #816 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 308 | #700 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 280 | #730 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 268 | #769 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 298 | #716 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 402 | #580 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 409 | #571 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 413 | #563 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 351 | #606 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 259 | #722 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 196 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,039 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 157 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 166 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 159 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 137 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 155 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 165 | #904 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 141 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 145 | #954 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 144 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 145 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 137 | #908 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 133 | #926 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 151 | #885 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 154 | #870 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 164 | #804 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 153 | #821 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,014 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,197 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,398 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,353 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,370 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirstin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirstin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirstin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirstin, and how old are they?
8,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,778 Americans ever recorded as Kirstin. The median Kirstin alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 8,232 people named Kirstin (8,187 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 205 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kirstin born?
The states with the most babies named Kirstin are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 942 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 476 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 438 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 416 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 388 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 307 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 295 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 282 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 250 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 210 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Kirstin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kirstin is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1942 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kirstin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 269,067 babies since 1880, Kirstin is the fourth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 130 babies recorded by SSA was a Kirstin (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 Kirstin
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 Kirstin and names like it
- Compare Kirstin and KristinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKirstin peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirstin since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kirstin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kirstin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.