Girls' name · since 1975
Kjirsten
94 babies named Kjirsten in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 94
- total births
- 1975–1996
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 48%
- born in that decade
94 girls have been named Kjirsten since 1975, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kjirsten has 94 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1996.
- 94 total births
- 1975–1996 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 48% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kjirsten's 94 recorded births place it above 61% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kjirsten's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kjirsten splits its recorded history at 1989: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1975 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1984 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kjirsten popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1996
- Peak year (1984)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Kjirsten by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kjirsten's strongest decade.
45 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Kjirsten births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 10
1970s
10 births
- 1980s
1980s
45 births
- 1990s
1990s
39 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 45 births (48% of all-time use).
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- Kjirsten's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (45 total births) through the 1990s (39) -- 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, 1975–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kjirsten: Baby Name Since 1975 - 94 Births, Peak 1984." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kjirsten. 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 Kjirsten 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.