How rare is the name Kirstie?

3,655 people in the United States have the first name Kirstie, about 1 in 82,635. It ranks #4,896 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KIRSTIE

#4,896

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,655
About
1 in 82,635
This common or more
84.6%
Who bears it

Of the 3,655 people named Kirstie, 77.9% reported their origin as White, 7.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.9% as Black. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kirstie peaked in 1991, when 635 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502011
Peak year
1991
Births that year
635
In 2011
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,151 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kirstie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,487. The largest share of babies named Kirstie, 70%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#8,39345
1960s#4,690177
1970s#2,447674
1980s#2,806675
1990s#1,4872,450
2000s#14,530119
2010s#39,70011
Baby boom 1946–642.1%
Generation X 1965–8020.3%
Millennials 1981–9670%
Generation Z 1997–127.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kirstie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kirstie has been most common in Louisiana (1.7×), California (1.7×), and Colorado (1.6×), and least common in New Jersey (0.42×).

2,536 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Kirstie

1 other first name also has 3,655 people.

#4,896 Emir · 3,655

Either side of Kirstie

#4,893 Tiago · 3,658#4,896 Emir · 3,655#4,898 Kegan · 3,653#4,898 Quynh · 3,653

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kirstie, most common first.

#895 Kirsten · 50,529#2,809 Kirstin · 8,232#5,860 Kierstin · 2,831#7,447 Kirstyn · 2,051#9,663 Kirsty · 1,425#11,586 Kirsti · 1,101#20,132 Kirstan · 516#29,625 Kirston · 298

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