How rare is the name Kirstin?

8,232 people in the United States have the first name Kirstin, about 1 in 36,690. It ranks #2,809 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KIRSTIN

#2,809

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,232
About
1 in 36,690
This common or more
80.9%
Who bears it

Of the 8,232 people named Kirstin, 84.9% reported their origin as White, 5.2% as Black and 4.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kirstin peaked in 1990, when 413 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19422023
Peak year
1990
Births that year
413
In 2023
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,778 babies have been given the name since 1942. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kirstin by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,288. The largest share of babies named Kirstin, 46.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#10,74511
1950s#8,01451
1960s#2,090748
1970s#1,5891,428
1980s#1,5021,867
1990s#1,2883,108
2000s#2,6741,363
2010s#11,224185
2020s#28,46817
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–642.7%
Generation X 1965–8024.4%
Millennials 1981–9646.6%
Generation Z 1997–1225.1%
2013 and later1.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kirstin is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kirstin has been most common in Minnesota (2.6×), Washington (2×), and Wisconsin (1.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.41×).

6,045 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 Kirstin

1 other first name also has 8,232 people.

#2,809 Maegan · 8,232

Either side of Kirstin

#2,807 Lien · 8,235#2,807 Niki · 8,235#2,809 Maegan · 8,232#2,811 Jessi · 8,230

Spelled almost the same

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

#895 Kirsten · 50,529#2,030 Kiersten · 13,430#4,896 Kirstie · 3,655#5,860 Kierstin · 2,831#7,428 Kierstyn · 2,058#7,447 Kirstyn · 2,051#9,663 Kirsty · 1,425#11,586 Kirsti · 1,101

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