Keirsten
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keirsten has been given to 1,370 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Keirsten, 2020
1 in 304,000
Keirsten over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Keirsten?
Keirsten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 304,000
- 11 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 147,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,612 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keirsten sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 210,612 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keirsten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keirstens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keirsten was born before 1999 — so the typical Keirsten is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,370
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (524).
Is Keirsten rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2005 (66)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Keirsten
Keirsten is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 71.4% against Keirsten's 0.45%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Keirsten is used
Across 1910–2025, Keirsten was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 396,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 100,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Indiana1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Keirsten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keirsten around the world
Where Keirsten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1991–2012#2,573in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Keirsten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keirsten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keirsten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.