Kirstin — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kirstin

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,778 babies named Kirstin between 1942 and 2023, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kirstin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 413 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kirstin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kirstin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 942 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kirstin in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kirstin 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 8,778 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.