Kjerstin
Kjerstin was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kjerstin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kjerstin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,978, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1991, the peak
Kjerstin peaked in 1991, when 14 girls were given it, #6,427 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,978 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,354 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,899 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,872 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,867 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,839 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,118 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,722 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,936 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,227 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 | #9,388 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,867 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,549 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,342 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,052 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,438 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,685 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,292 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,623 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,427 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,862 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,386 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,794 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,531 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,852 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,748 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,654 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,339 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,569 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,547 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,089 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,687 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,640 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kjerstin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kjerstin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kjerstin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kjerstin, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Kjerstin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 308 people named Kjerstin (304 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 244 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kjerstin
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.