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Kirsti

Girls' name

Possibly a Christian person, a Christian, through Kirsten

Kirsti has been given to 1,010 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1991, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Kirsti, 2007

1 in 571,000

Kirsti over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirsti: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly a Christian person, a Christian, through Kirsten

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirsti means

Kirsti belongs to the name family reached through Kirsti → Kirsten → Kristine → Christine → Christian → Chrīstiānus. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kirsti is used in Finnish and Norwegian.

Kirsti comes through Danish Kirsten.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kristiina, Kristine, Kirsten, Christine, Christian and Chrīstiānus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kirsti is pronounced /ˈkirsti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,010 girls were recorded with the name Kirsti between 1952 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,486 in 1991.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kirsti?

Kirsti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 571,000
7 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 275,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
395,862 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirsti 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 2007 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 395,862 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirsti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirstis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirsti was born before 1990 — so the typical Kirsti is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,010
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (500).

Is Kirsti 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (106)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,486
1991

Spellings of Kirsti

Kirsti is not the most common spelling — Kristi is, with 46.3% against Kirsti's 0.61%.

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 Kirsti is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirsti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 399,886 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Iowa1 in —
  4. 4Kentucky1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Kirsti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kirsti around the world

Where Kirsti 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Scotland
    1975–1997
    #387
    in 1997
  • Norway
    1880–2018
    #472
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–1994
    #1,986
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1946–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kirsti 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
#1,486
1991
Peak year
1991
106 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
1,010
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirsti

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

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Sibling names for Kirsti

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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