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Kirstein

Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Chrīstiānus

Kirstein has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 2001, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kirstein, 2004

1 in 764,000

Kirstein over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirstein: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Chrīstiānus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirstein means

Kirstein belongs to the name family reached through Kirstein → Chrīstiānus. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from German Kirstein, from a derivative of Latin Chrīstiānus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kirstein (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kirstein is used in English.

Kirstein comes through Latin Chrīstiānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chrīstiānus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Kirstein between 1989 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2001; its best national rank was #9,749 in 2001.

How common is Kirstein?

Kirstein had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirstein sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirstein. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirsteins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirstein was born before 1996 — so the typical Kirstein is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
68
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Kirstein 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (10)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,749
2001

Spellings of Kirstein

Kirstein is not the most common spelling — Kirsten is, with 55.3% against Kirstein's 0.07%.

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.

Kirstein around the world

Where Kirstein 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.

  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kirstein by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,749
2001
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirstein

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kirstein

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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